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Section 18: Functions of metro railway administration.

The Metro Railways (Construction of Works) Act, 1978Central Act · Act 33 of 1978

Subject to the control of the Central Government, the metro railway administration shall, for the purpose of constructing any metro railway or any other work connected therewith,--

(a) make or construct in, upon, across, under or over any lands, buildings, streets, roads, railways or tramways or any rivers, canals, brooks, streams or other waters or any drains, water-pipes, gas-pipes, electric lines or telegraph lines, such temporary or permanent inclined planes, arches, tunnels, culverts, embankments, aqueducts, bridges, ways or passages, as the metro railway administration thinks proper;

(b) alter the course of any rivers, canals, brooks, streams or water-courses for the purpose of constructing tunnels, passages or other works over or under them and divert or alter as well temporarily as permanently, the course of any rivers, canals, brooks, streams or water-courses or any drains, water-pipes, gas-pipes, electric lines or telegraph lines or raise or sink the level thereof in order the more conveniently to carry them over or under, as the metro railway administration thinks proper;

(c) make drains or conduits into, through or under, any lands adjoining the metro railway for the purpose of conveying water from or to the metro railway;

(d) erect or construct search houses, warehouses, offices and other buildings and such yards, stations, engines, machinery, apparatus and other works and conveniences, as the metro railway administration thinks proper;

(e) alter, repair or discontinue such buildings, works and conveniences as aforesaid or any of them, and substitute others in their stead;

(f) draw, make or conduct such maps, plans, surveys or tests, as the metro railway administration thinks proper;

(g) do all other acts necessary for making, maintaining, altering or repairing and using the metro railway.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Metro Railways (Construction of Works) Act, 1978
Section18
Marginal noteFunctions of metro railway administration.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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