RAILWAY AND CANAL TRAFFIC ACT 1888 - SECT 33 Classification table to be open for inspection. Copies to be sold.

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RAILWAY AND CANAL TRAFFIC ACT 1888 - SECT 33

Classification table to be open for inspection. Copies to be sold.

33.(1) The book, tables, or other document in use for the time being
containing the general classification of merchandise carried on the railway of
any company, shall, during all reasonable hours, be open to the inspection of
any person without the payment of any fee at every station at which
merchandise is received for conveyance, or where merchandise is received at
some other place than a station then at the station nearest such place, and
the said book, tables, or other document as revised from time to time shall be
kept on sale at the principal office of the company at a price not exceeding
[5p].

(2) Printed copies of the classification of merchandise traffic, and schedule
of maximum tolls, rates, and charges of every railway company authorised, as
provided by this Act, shall be kept for sale by the railway company at such
places and at such reasonable prices as the Board of Trade may by any general
or special order prescribe.

(3) The company shall within one week after application in writing made to the
secretary of any railway company by any person interested in the carriage of
any merchandise which has been or is intended to be carried over the railway
of such company, render an account to the person so applying in which the
charge made or claimed by the company for the carriage of such merchandise
shall be divided, and the charge for conveyance over the railway shall be
distinguished from the terminal charges (if any), and from the dock charges
(if any), and if any terminal charge or dock charge is included in such
account the nature and detail of the terminal expenses or dock charges in
respect of which it is made shall be specified.

(4) Every railway company shall publish at every station at which merchandise
is received for conveyance, or where merchandise is received at some other
place than a station then at the station nearest to such place, a notice, in
such form as may be from time to time prescribed by the Board of Trade, to the
effect that such book, tables, and document touching the classification of
merchandise and the rates as they are required by this section and section
fourteen of the Regulation of Railways Act, 1873, to keep at that station, are
open to public inspection, and that information as to any charge can be
obtained by application to the secretary or other officer at the address
stated in such notice.

(5) Where a railway company carries merchandise partly by land and partly by
sea, all the books, tables, and documents, touching the rates of charge of the
railway company, which are kept by the railway company at any port in the
United Kingdom used by the vessels which carry the sea traffic of the railway
company, shall, besides containing all the rates charged for the sea traffic,
state what proportion of any through rate is appropriated to conveyance by
sea, distinguishing such proportion from that which is appropriated to the
conveyance by land on either side of the sea.

(6) Where a railway company intend to make any increase in the tolls, rates,
or charges published in the books required to be kept by the company for
public inspection, under section fourteen of the
Regulation of Railways Act, 1873, or this Act, they shall give by publication
in such manner as the Board of Trade may prescribe at least fourteen days
notice of such intended increase, stating in such notice the date on which the
altered rate or charge is to take effect; and no such increase in the
published tolls, rates, or charges of the railway company shall have effect
unless and until the fourteen days notice required under this section has been
given.

(7) Any company failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall,
for each offence, and in the case of a continuing offence for every day during
which the offence continues, be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty
not exceeding five pounds.

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RAILWAY AND CANAL TRAFFIC ACT 1888 - SECT 33