Section 3. After section XLIII of the said Act, the following section shall be added:

3. After section XLIII of the said Act, the following section shall be added:— "XLIV. The Governor General in Council may from time to time, by notification in the Gazette of India, declare what Government shall be deemed to be the Local Government in respect of the whole or any part of a Railway for the purposes of the Act." Addition of section XLIV. Power to declare authority by which powers of Local Governments are to be exercised in case of Railways. Amendment of part of section 3, Act XIII of 1870.