65. Every railway company, which runs trains upon the railway for the conveyance of passengers, shall provide and cause to be used, in and upon such trains, such apparatus as best affords good and sufficient means of immediate communication between the conductors and the engine-drivers, or the conductors or motormen of such trains while the trains are in motion, and good and sufficient means of applying, by the power of the steam engine or otherwise at the will of the engine-driver or other person appointed to such duty, the brakes to the wheels of the locomotive, or tender, or both, or of all or any of the cars or carriages composing the trains, and of disconnecting the locomotive, tender and carriages from each other by any such power or means, and also such apparatus as will best and most securely place and fix the seats or chairs in the cars or carriages, and shall alter such apparatus or supply new apparatus as the Minister of Transport may order.
R. S. 1964, c. 290, s. 65; 1972, c. 55, s. 107.