Section 16: Accommodation works

The Corporation shall make and maintain for the accommodation of the owners and occupiers of lands adjoining a railway-(a) convenient crossings, bridges, arches, culverts and passages over, under or by the sides of, or leading to or from, such railway, for the purpose of making good any interruptions caused by the railway, to the use of the lands through which such railway is made; and
(b) arches, tunnels, culverts, drains, water-courses or other passages over, or under, or by the sides of, the railway, for the purpose of conveying water at all times as freely from or to such lands as before the making of the railway or as nearly as may be:
Provided that-
(i) the Corporation shall not be required to make any accommodation works in such a manner as would prevent or obstruct the working or using of the railway, or to make any accommodation works, with respect to which the occupiers of the land have agreed to receive and have been paid compensation, or to make any accommodation works with respect to which the owners or occupiers have made no representations, during the time that the section of the railway affected was in course of construct;
(ii) where the Corporation has provided suitable accommodation for the crossing of a road or stream and the road or stream is afterwards diverted by the act or neglect of the person having the control, thereof, the Corporation shall not be compelled to provide other accommodation for the crossing of the road or stream.