C-14 - Railway Act

Section 160 Disposition versions

1990-10-01

160. (1)  All suits for indemnity for any damage or injury, sustained by reason of the railway, shall be instituted within twelve months next after the time such supposed damage was sustained, and not afterwards.

(2)  (Subsection repealed).

(3)  (Subsection repealed).

(4)  Although a contravention of this Act or of the charter by the company is considered to be an offence, and punishable accordingly, the said company, if it be the offending party, shall not be exempted from the forfeiture, under this Act or the charter, of the privileges conferred on it by the said Act or charter, if, by the provisions thereof or by law, the same be forfeited by such contravention.

R. S. 1964, c. 290, s. 177 (part); 1990, c. 4, s. 153.

1977-12-31

160. (1)  All suits for indemnity for any damage or injury, sustained by reason of the railway, shall be instituted within twelve months next after the time such supposed damage was sustained, and not afterwards.

(2)  All fines or forfeitures imposed by sections 5 to 171, or by the charter, or by any by-law, except those for the levying and recovering of which special provision is herein made, shall be recovered, in a summary manner, before any one or more justices of the peace for the district or place where the offence was committed.

(3)  Every fine or forfeiture recovered under subsection 2 of this section, the application whereof is not hereinbefore particularly directed, shall be paid into the hands of the treasurer of the company, to be applied to the use thereof.

(4)  Although a contravention of this act or of the charter by the company is considered to be an offence, and punishable accordingly, the said company, if it be the offending party, shall not be exempted from the forfeiture, under this act or the charter, of the privileges conferred on it by the said act or charter, if, by the provisions thereof or by law, the same be forfeited by such contravention.

R. S. 1964, c. 290, s. 177 (part).