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RAILWAY REGULATION ACT 1840 - SECT 13

Punishment of servants of railway companies guilty of misconduct.

13. It shall be lawful for any officer or agent of any railway company, or for
any special constable duly appointed, and all such persons as they may call to
their assistance, to seize and detain any engine driver, guard, porter, or
other servant in the employ of such company, who shall be found drunk while
employed upon the railway, or commit any offence against any of the byelaws,
rules, or regulations of such company, or shall wilfully, maliciously, or
negligently do or omit to do any act whereby the life or limb of any person
passing along or being upon the railway belonging to such company, or the
works thereof respectively, shall be or might be injured or endangered, or
whereby the passage of any of the engines, carriages, or trains shall be or
might be obstructed or impeded, and to convey such engine driver, guard,
porter, or other servant so offending, or any person counselling, aiding, or
assisting in such offence, with all convenient despatch, before some justice
of the peace for the place within which such offence shall be committed,
without any other warrant or authority than this Act; and every such person so
offending, and every person counselling, aiding, or assisting therein as
aforesaid, shall, when convicted before such justice as aforesaid, (who is
hereby authorized and required, upon complaint to him made upon oath, without
information in writing, to take cognizance thereof, and to act summarily in
the premises,) in the discretion of such justice, be imprisoned, ... for any
term not exceeding two calendar months, or, in the like discretion of such
justice, shall for every such offence forfeit to Her Majesty any sum not
exceeding ten pounds, ....

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