The Railways Act

Maintenance of rate-books, etc., for carriage of goods

Conditions for receiving, etc., of goods

Provisions of risk rates

Forwarding note

Railway receipt

Power to require statement relating to the description of goods

Carriage of dangerous or offensive goods

Carriage of animals suffering from infectious or contagious diseases

Deviation of route

Prohibition of undue preference

Power to give direction in regard to carriage of certain goods

Maximum carrying capacity for wagons and trucks

Punitive charge for overloading a wagon

Passing of property in the goods covered by railway receipt

Section 74 not to affect right of stoppage in transit or claims for freight

Surrender of railway receipt

Power of railway administration to deliver goods or sale proceeds thereof in certain cases

Power to measure, weigh, etc

Weighment of consignment on request of the consignee or endorsee

Liability of railway administration for wrong delivery

Open delivery of consigrments

Partial delivery of consignments

Lien for freight or any other sum due

Unclaimed consignment

Disposal of perishable consignments in certain circumstances

Sales under sections 83 to 85 not to affect the right to suit

Power to make rules in respect of matters in this Chapter


CARRIAGE OF GOODS


Where due to any cause beyond the control of a railway administration or
due to congestion in the yard or any other operational reasons, goods are carried over a route other than
the route by which such goods are booked, the railway administration shall not be deemed to have
committed a breach of the contract of carriage by reason only of the deviation of the route.


LAWGIST

# 69 Deviation of route