LawgistThe Railways Act
187Restriction on execution against railway property
(1) No rolling stock, machinery, plant, tools, fittings, materials or effects used or provided by a railway administration for the purpose of traffic on its railway, or of its stations or workshops, shall be liable to be taken in execution of any decree or order of any court or of any local authority or person having by law the power to attach or distrain property or otherwise to cause property to be taken in execution, without the previous sanction of the Central Government.
(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall be construed to affect the authority of any court to attach the earnings of a railway in execution of a decree or order.
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MISCELLANEOUS
- 183 Power to provide other transport services
- 184 Taxation on railways by local authorities
- 185 Taxation on railways for advertisement
- 186 Protection of action taken in good faith
- 187 Restriction on execution against railway property
- 188 Railway servants to be public servants for the purposes of Chapter IX and section 409 of the Indian Penal Code
- 189 Railway servants not to engage in trade
- 190 Procedure for delivery to railway administration of property detained by a railway servant
- 191 Proof of entries in records and documents
- 192 Service of notice, etc., on railway administration
- 193 Service of notice, etc., by railway administration
- 194 Presumption where notice is served by post
- 195 Representation of railway administration
- 196 Power to exempt railway from Act
- 197 Matters supplemental to the definitions of "railway" and "railway servant"
- 198 General power to make rules
- 199 Rules to be laid before Parliament
- 200 Repeal and saving
