#THE INDIAN RAILWAY BOARD ACT, 1905 
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##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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SECTIONS 

1. Short title and construction. 
2. Investment of Railway Board with powers under Indian Railways Act, 1890. 
3. Mode of signifying communications from the Railway Board. 
4. [Repealed.]. 



#THE INDIAN RAILWAY BOARD ACT, 1905 

##ACT NO.4 OF 1905
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[22nd March, 1905.] 

An Act  to  provide for investing the Railway  Board with  certain  powers or functions under the 
Indian Railways Act, 1890. 

WHEREAS  a  Railway  Board  has  been  constituted  for  controlling  the  administration  of  railways  in 
India, and it is expedient to provide for investing such Board with certain powers or functions under the 
Indian Railways Act, 1890 (9 of 1890); It is hereby enacted as follows:— 

1. **Short title and construction.**—(1) This Act may be called the Indian Railway Board Act, 1905; 
and 

(2) It shall be read with, and taken as part of, the Indian Railways Act, 1890 (9 of 1890). 

2. **Investment of Railway Board with powers under Indian Railways Act, 1890.**—The  Central 
Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, invest the Railway Board, either absolutely or 
subject to conditions,— 

  (a) with  all  or  any  of  the  powers  or  functions  of  the  Central  Government  under  the  Indian 
Railways Act, 1890 (9 of 1890), with respect to all or any railways, and 

  (b) with the power of the officer referred to in section 47 of the said Act to make general rules for 
railways administered by the Government. 

3. **Mode of signifying communications from the Railway Board.**—Any  notice,  determination, 
direction, requisition, appointment, expression of opinion, approval or sanction, to be given or signified 
on the part of the Railway Board. for any of the purposes of, or in relation to, any powers or functions 
with which it may be invested by notification under section 2, shall be sufficient and binding if in writing 
signed  by  the  Secretary  to  the  Railway  Board,  or  by  any  other  person  authorized  by  the  said  Railway 
Board to act in its behalf in respect of the matters to which such authorisation may relate; and the said 
Railway Board shall not in any case be bound in respect of any of the matters aforesaid unless by some 
writing signed in manner aforesaid. 

4. *[Cessation of Railway Board on establishment of Federal Railway Authority.] Rep. by the* 
A.O. 1948. 

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[^1].  This  Act  has  been  extended  to  Berar  by  the  Berar  Laws  Act,  1941  (4  of  1941)  and  has  been declared  to be  in  force  in  the 
Sonthal  Parganas  by  notification  under  section  3  (3)  (a)  of  the  Sonthal  Parganas  Settlement  Regulation  (3  of  1872),  see 
Calcutta Gazette, 1906, Pt. I, p.33, and in the Angul District by the Angul Laws Regulation, 1936 (5 of 1936), section 3 and 
the  Schedule.;  in  Dadra  and  Nagar  Haveli  (w.e.f.  1-7-1965):  vide  Reg.  6  of  1963,  s.  2  and  the  First  Schedule  and  in 
Pondicherry (w.e.f. 1-10-1963): vide Reg 7 of 1963, s. 3 and the First Schedule and this Act has been extended to Goa, Daman 
and Diu with modifications by Reg. 12 of 1962 and Sch. (w.e.f. 15-4-1962).