RAILWAY REGULATION ACT 1842 - SECT 15 Compulsory powers of taking land for the purposes of railways extended where thought necessary for safety by the Board of Trade.

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RAILWAY REGULATION ACT 1842 - SECT 15

Compulsory powers of taking land for the purposes of railways extended where thought necessary for safety by the Board of Trade.

15. And whereas by various Acts relating to railways compulsory powers are
given to railway companies of purchasing and taking lands for the construction
of such railways, and it is provided that such compulsory powers shall not be
exercised after the expiration of certain limited periods from the passing of
the said Act: And whereas it is sometimes found necessary for the public
safety that additional land should be taken after the expiration of such
periods for the purpose of giving increased width to the embankments and
inclination to the slopes of railways, or for making approaches to bridges or
archways, or for doing such works for the repair or prevention of accidents as
are herein-before described: In every case in which the lords of the said
committee shall certify that the public safety requires additional land to be
taken by any railway company for such purposes as aforesaid, the compulsory
powers of purchasing and taking land contained in the Act or Acts of such
railway company, together with all the clauses and provisions relative
thereto, shall, as regards such portion or portions of land as are mentioned
in the certificate of the lords of the said committee, revive and be in full
force for such further period as shall be mentioned in such certificate:
Provided always that any railway company applying to the lords of the said
committee for any such certificate shall give fourteen days notice in writing,
in the manner prescribed by the Act or Acts of such company for serving
notices on landowners, of their intention to make such application, to all the
parties interested in such lands, or such of them as shall be known to the
company, and shall state in such notice the particulars of the lands required;
and if any of such parties interested shall apply within the said period of
fourteen days to the lords of the said committee, such party shall be heard by
them before any such certificate is given: Provided also, that where any such
application shall have been made by any railway company to the lords of the
said committee, upon which application any such certificate shall have been
refused, the directors of such railway company shall, if required by the lords
of the said committee, repay to the party resisting such application any
expences which he or they may have incurred in resisting such application.

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RAILWAY REGULATION ACT 1842 - SECT 15