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MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY ORDINANCE
Ord. No. 13 of 2000
A443
(d) providing for the safety of persons being on the railway or on railway premises;
(e) providing for the investigation of accidents on the railway or on railway premises, or in which the railway is involved;
(f) controlling and regulating the use of transport interchanges;
(g) regulating the disposal of lost property on the railway; and
(h) providing for anything which under this Ordinance is to be or may be prescribed.

(2) Regulations made for the purpose of subsection (1)(e)—

(a) may confer powers upon an inspector to compel the giving of information concerning accidents, including power to summon a person to attend before him for the purpose, and may make provision for the payment of persons so summoned; and
(b) may require compliance with a summons or requirement made by an inspector, and may prohibit the obstruction of an inspector, or the giving of false or misleading information.

(3) Regulations made for the purpose of subsection (1)(f) may, in relation to transport interchanges and their use—

(a) confer powers upon the Commissioner to give directions to the Corporation in respect of the control and regulation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic and the operation of public transport services, car parks and parking spaces;
(b) confer powers upon the Commissioner to do any act, or cause any act to be done, which the Corporation is required or directed to do under the regulations but has failed to do, and to recover any costs incurred by or incidental to such act from the Corporation as a civil debt;
(c) control and regulate the provision by the Corporation, subject to the approval of the Commissioner, of adequate, efficient, safe and continuous roads and facilities for—
(i) the use of transport interchanges by vehicles and members of the public;
(ii) the operation of public transport services;
(iii) the parking of vehicles;
(d) confer powers upon the Corporation—
(i) to erect or place traffic signs, road markings and light signals;
(ii) to establish zebra crossings and light signal crossings;
(iii) to alter, suspend or cancel anything done under regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph,
or to do so subject to the approval of the Commissioner;
(e) confer powers upon the Corporation—