#THE RAILWAYS (EMPLOYMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES) ACT, 1965 
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##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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SECTIONS

1.  Short title and extent. 
2.  Interpretation. 
3.  Employment  of  members  of  Armed  Forces  of  the  Union  to  assist  a  railway  administration  in 
connection with the service of a railway.
4.  Employment  of  members  of  Armed  Forces  of  the  Union  to  replace  railway  administration  in 
working a railway. 
5.  Repeal and saving. 

 
 
#THE RAILWAYS (EMPLOYMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES) ACT, 1965

##ACT NO. 40 OF 1965 

[3rd December, 1965.]

An Act to make certain provisions relating to the employment of members of the Armed Forces 
of the Union in the working and management of railways. 

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:— 

1. **Short title and extent.**—(1) This Act may be called the Railways (Employment of Members of the 
Armed Forces) Act, 1965. 

(2) It extends to the whole of India.

2. **Interpretation.**—Words and expressions used in this Act and defined in the Indian Railways Act, 
1890(9 of 1890), shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act. 

3. **Employment of members of Armed Forces of the Union to assist a railway administration in 
connection with the service of a railway.**—(1) When any member of the Armed Forces of the Union is 
employed  to  assist  a  railway  administration  in  connection  with  the  service  of  a  railway,  then,  whether 
such employment was before or is after the commencement of this Act,—

(a) any provision of the Indian Railways Act, 1890(9 of 1890), or of the rules made thereunder, 
which confers a power, status or immunity, or imposes a duty or liability, upon a railway servant, in 
connection  with  the  working,  use,  management  and  maintenance  of  railways,  shall  be  construed as 
conferring the same power, status or immunity or imposing the same duty or liability, as the case may 
be, upon such member of the Armed Forces of the Union when so employed; 

(b) the employment of a member of the Armed Forces of the Union, in addition to or in the place 
of  any  railway  servant,  shall  not  affect  any  liability  that  would  have  attached  to  the  railway 
administration had such member been a railway servant. 

(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall be construed as making applicable to the members of the Armed 
Forces  of  the  Union  employed  to  assist  a  railway  administration  the  provisions  of  Chapter  VIA  of  the 
Indian  Railways  Act,  1890(9  of  1890),  or  as  derogating  from  any  provision  of  a  law  regulating  the 
governance, control and discipline of the members of the Armed Forces of the Union. 

4. **Employment of members of Armed Forces of the Union to replace railway administration in 
working a railway.**—If  at  any  time  the  whole  of  the  working,  management  and  maintenance  of  a 
railway, or of a specific portion or section of a railway, is assumed by the Armed Forces of the Union, the 
Central  Government  may  notify  the  fact  of  such  assumption  in  the  Official  Gazette,  and  thereupon,  so 
long as such assumption continues, the Indian Railways Act, 1890(9 of 1890), shall cease to be applicable 
to the Railway or the portion or section of the Railway concerned.

5. **Repeal and saving.**—(1)  The  Railways  (Employment  of  Members  of  the  Armed  Forces) 
Ordinance, 1965 (Ord. 4 of 1965) is hereby repealed. 

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the said Ordinance shall be 
deemed  to  have  been  done  or  taken  under  this  Act  as  if  this  Act  had  commenced  on  the  29th  day  of 
September, 1965.