PART VI.

Application of Enactments.

Status of the Board as a railway company.

42. —The Board shall, for the purpose of any enactment, have the same status as the Company had before the establishment date as a railway company.

Application of Road Transport Acts, 1932 and 1933.

43. —(1) For the purposes of sections 28 and 30 of the Road Transport Act, 1932 (No. 2 of 1932), the Board shall be deemed to be a company to which Part III of the said Act applies.

(2) The Board shall be deemed to be an authorised (merchandise carrying) company and an authorised (passenger carrying) company for the purposes of the Road Transport Act, 1933 (No. 8 of 1933).

Modification of Public Authorities Protection Act, 1893.

44. —The Public Authorities Protection Act, 1893, shall apply to the Board subject to the modifications that for any references to six months in paragraph (a) of section 1 thereof there shall be substituted a reference to twelve months and that paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) of that section (which make special provision as to costs) shall not apply.

Non-application of certain enactments to the Board.

45. —The enactments mentioned in the Fifth Schedule shall not apply to the Board.