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REGULATION OF RAILWAYS ACT 1871 - SECT 12 

>(1) Having been summoned, and having had the expenses (if any) to which he is entitled tendered to him, fails to attend as a witness before any inspector under this Act, or before a court holding an investigation under this Act, or fails when required by the inspector or such court in pursuance of this Act so to do, to make any answer, or to give any return, or to produce any document, or to make or sign any declaration; or

12. Where a railway company under a contract for carrying persons, animals, or
goods by sea procure the same to be carried in a vessel not belonging to the
railway company, the railway company shall be answerable in damages in respect
of loss of life or personal injury, or in respect of loss of or damage to
animals or goods, in like manner and to the same amount as the railway company
would be answerable if the vessel had belonged to the railway company;
provided that such loss of life or personal injury, or loss or damage to
animals or goods, happens to the person, animals, or goods (as the case may
be) during the carriage of the same in such vessel, the proof to the contrary
to lie upon the railway company.

S.13 rep. by SLR 1883; SLR 1950. S.14 rep. in part by SLR 1883, residue spent

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