Section 32: Preliminary investigation of land required for railway purposes

(1) Whenever it appears to the Corporation that land in any locality is likely to be needed for any purposes of a railway, the Corporation may, by its servants or agents, together with all necessary workmen, enter upon any land in such locality and-
(a) survey and take levels of such land;
(b) dig or bore under the sub-soil;
(c) do all other acts necessary to ascertain whether the land is adapted for such purposes;
(d) clear, set out and mark the boundaries of the land, in respect of which it is proposed, to make an application under subsection (1) of section 33 of this Act and the intended line of the work (if any), proposed to be made thereon:
Provided that no such servant, agent or workman shall enter into any building or upon any enclosed court or garden attached to a dwelling-house (except with the consent of the occupier thereof), unless at least seven days' notice of the intended entry shall have been given to such occupier.
(2) As soon as conveniently, may be after any entry made under subsection (1) of this section, the Corporation shall pay compensation for all damage arising out of the exercise of any power conferred by that subsection.
(3)
In case of dispute as to the amount of any compensation payable under this section, the amount of the compensation may be determined in the manner provided by the Land Use Act for determining the compensation payable, where a right of occupancy is revoked.
[Cap. L5.]