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An Act to attach certain Conditions to the Construction of future Railways
authorized or to be authorized by any Act of the present or succeeding
Sessions of Parliament; and for other Purposes in relation to Railways.{1}
[9th August <1844] N>> Preamble rep. by SLR 1891 N >> S.1 rep. by 1935 c.15 (NI)
s.49(4); SLR 1959. Ss.2 5 rep. by SLR 1959; SLR 1960. S.6 rep. by SLR 1891;
1935 c.15 (NI) s.49(4); SLR 1960. Ss. 7 10 rep. by SLR 1960. S.11 rep. by 1953
c.36 s.91(1) sch.3. S.12 rep. by 1921 c.37 s.4(1) sch.2; SLR 1960 >Companies
to allow lines of electrical telegraph to be established for Her Majesty's
service, and afford facilities for using the same. 13. . . .{2} Every railway
company, on being required so to do by the lords of the said committee, shall
be bound to allow any person or persons authorized by the lords of the said
committee, with servants and workmen, at all reasonable times to enter into or
upon their lands, and to establish and lay down upon such lands adjoining the
line of such railway a line of electrical telegraph for Her Majesty's service,
and to give to him and them every reasonable facility for laying down the
same, and for using the same for the purpose of receiving and sending messages
on Her Majesty's service, subject to such reasonable remuneration to the
company as may be agreed upon between the company and the lords of the said
committee, or in case of disagreement as may be settled by arbitration:
|Provided always that, subject to a prior right of use thereof for the
purposes of Her Majesty, such telegraph may be used by the company for the
purposes of the railway, upon such terms as may be agreed upon between the
parties, or, in the event of difference, as may be settled by arbitration. N>>
S.14 rep. by 1969 c.48 s.137 sch.8 Pt.I. Ss. 15, 16 rep. by 1871 c.78 s.17
sch.2 >If railway companies contravene or exceed the provisions of their Acts,
or of any general Act, the Board of Trade to certify the same to the attorney
general, &c., who shall proceed against them. A > 17. Whenever it shall appear
to the lords of the said committee that any of the provisions of the several
Acts of Parliament regulating any railway company, or the provisions of
this Act or of any general Act relating to railways, have not been complied
with on the part of any railway company or any of its officers, or that any
railway company has acted or is acting in a manner unauthorized by the
provisions of the Act or Acts of Parliament relating to such railway, or in
excess of the powers given and objects defined by the said Act or Acts, and it
shall also appear to the lords of the said committee that it would be for the
public advantage that the company should be restrained from so acting, the
lords of the said committee shall certify the same to Her Majesty's
attorney-general for$$#
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