RAILWAY PURCHASE ACT

NO. 25 OF 1971

[ASSENTED TO 29 MARCH, 1971][DATE OF 
COMMENCEMENT: 31 MARCH, 1971]

(Afrikaans text signed by the State President)

ACT

To provide for the purchase and equipment of a certain line of 
railway and for matters incidental thereto.

1.   Purchase and equipment of a certain line of railway.—(1)  
The State President may, as soon after the commencement of 
this Act as to him may seem expedient, cause to be purchased 
from the Electricity Supply Commission (established under the 
Electricity Act, 1922 (Act No. 42 of 1922)) a line of railway of 
a gauge of one thousand and sixty-five millimetres, 
approximately forty-eight kilometres long, extending from a 
junction at Broodsnyersplaas Station to a terminal point on the 
farm Tweefontein No. 458-JS., District of Middelburg in the 
Province of the Transvaal, at a cost not exceeding four million 
rand.

(2)  The powers conferred by this section shall include the 
power to construct and equip all sidings, stations, buildings and 
other appurtenances necessary for or incidental to the proper 
working of the said line of railway.

2.   Cost of purchase and equipment.—The cost of purchase and 
equipment of the line of railway authorized by section 1 shall be 
defrayed out of any loan raised by the State President under the 
authority of law and appropriated for that purpose by 
Parliament, or out of any other moneys so appropriated.

3.   Powers incidental to purchase and equipment.—In respect 
of the purchase and equipment of the said line of railway, the 
State President shall have the powers conferred by the Railway 
Expropriation Act, 1955 (Act No. 37 of 1955), but subject to 
the obligations imposed by that Act: Provided that the width of 
the land taken for the railway line shall not exceed thirty-three 
metres, together with such additional land as may be required 
for the slopes, cuttings, drainage, stations, approach roads and 
other works and matters which may be necessary for the 
purposes of the line.

4.   Short title.—This Act shall be called the Railway Purchase 
Act, 1971.