law: Railways Act, 1989
  111. Extent of liability of railway administration in
  
  respect of accidents at sea.  
  (1) When a railway administration contracts to carry passengers
  
  or goods partly by railway and partly by sea, a condition exempting the railway
  
  administration from responsibility for any loss of life, personal injury or
  
  loss of or damage to goods which may happen during the carriage by sea from act
  
  of God, public enemies, fire, accident from machinery, boilers and steam and
  
  all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers and navigation of
  
  whatever nature and kind shall, without being expressed, be deemed to be part
  
  of the contract, and, subject to that condition, the railway administration
  
  shall, irrespective of the nationality or ownership of the ship used for the
  
  carriage by sea, be responsible for any loss of life, personal injury or loss
  
  of or damage to goods which,. may happen during the carriage by sea, to the
  
  extent to which it would be responsible under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958
  
  (44 of 1958), if the ships were registered under that Act and the railway
  
  administration were owner of the ship and not to any greater extent.
  (2) The burden, of proving that any such loss, injury or damage
  
  as is mentioned in sub-section (1) happened during the carriage by sea shall
  
  lie on the railway administration.