Act Number: 60

Act Name: The Metro Railways (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002

Year: 2002

Enactment Date: 2002-12-17

Long Title: An Act to provide for the operation and maintenance and to regulate the working of the metro railway in the National Capital Region, metropolitan city and metropolitan area and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

Department:

Section 22: Power to make rules in respect of matters in this Chapter.
    (1) The Central Government may, by notification, make rules to carry out the provisions of this Chapter.
     (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:--
         (a) the duties of a metro railway administration and the Commissioner in regard to the opening of a metro railway for the public carriage of passengers;
         (b) the arrangements to be made for and the formalities to be complied with before opening a metro railway for the public carriage of passengers;
         (c) for regulating the mode in which, and the speed at which rolling stock used on metro railway is to be moved or propelled; and
         (d) the cases in which and the extent to which the procedure provided in this Chapter may be dispensed with.
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