Section 29: Power to make rules in respect of matters in this Chapter.

The Railways Act, 1989Central Act · Act 24 of 1989

(1) The Central Government may, by notification, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Chapter.

(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:--

(a) the duties of a railway administration and the Commissioner in regard to the opening of a railway for the public carriage of passengers;

(b) the arrangements to be made for and the formalities to be complied with before opening a railway for the public carriage of passengers;

(c) for regulating the mode in which, and the speed at which rolling stock used on railways is to be moved or propelled; and

(d) the cases in which and the extent to which the procedure provided in this Chapter may be dispensed with.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Railways Act, 1989
Section	29
Marginal note	Power to make rules in respect of matters in this Chapter.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

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