COMMONWEALTH RAILWAYS.
No. 64 of 1954.
An Act to amend the Commonwealth Railways Act 1917–1950.
[Assented to 6th November, 1954.]
BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title and citation
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth Railways Act 1954.
(2.) The Commonwealth Railways Act 1917–1950, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Commonwealth Railways Act 1917–1954.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
3. After section thirty-three of the Commonwealth Railways Act 1917–1950, the following section is inserted in Division 3 of Part II.:—
Supply of meals, refreshments, &c.
“33a.—(1.) The Commissioner may sell and supply meals, refreshments, smokers’ requisites and approved goods on trains or premises vested in the Commissioner to persons travelling upon the railways.
“(2.) The Commissioner may, by writing under his hand, grant to a person to whom he has leased a refreshment room an authority authorizing him to sell and supply meals, refreshments, smokers’ requisites and approved goods at that refreshment room to persons travelling upon the railways.
“(3.) An authority under the last preceding sub-section may be granted for such term, and subject to such conditions, as the Commissioner thinks fit.
“(4.) The Commissioner may exercise his powers under sub-section (1.) of this section, and the holder of an authority granted under sub-section (2.) of this section may exercise the powers conferred on him by the authority, notwithstanding the provisions of a law of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth regulating or prohibiting the sale or supply, or the keeping, of meals, refreshments, smokers’ requisites or approved goods.
“(5.) Notwithstanding the provisions of a law of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth—
(a) the Commissioner, or the holder of an authority granted under sub-section (2.) of this section, may permit the consumption, on trains or premises vested in the Commissioner (including a refreshment room leased to a person by the Commissioner), of meals or refreshments sold or supplied in pursuance of this section or in accordance with that authority; and
(b) a person travelling upon a railway may purchase and consume any such meals or refreshments on a train or premises vested in the Commissioner (including a refreshment room leased to a person by the Commissioner).
“(6.) In this section—
‘approved goods’ means goods approved by the Commissioner, being goods required or likely to be required by persons travelling upon the railways while so travelling;
‘refreshments ’ includes alcoholic liquor;
‘smokers’ requisites’ includes tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, cigarette papers, matches, pipes and pipe cleaners.”.