TRAMWAY.
No. 10 of 1902.
969.
Insufficient user of tramway.
to the Governor Procedure 27. If it be represented in writing to when public in Council by the Director of Public Works or by twenty not afforded inhabitant ratepayers that the public are not afforded the full benefit of the tramway, the Governor in Council may (if satisfied that prima facie the case is one for inquiry) appoint an officer to inquire into the matter and to hold an inquiry and report thereon, and if the truth of the representation be proved, the Governor in Council may issue an order to the company requiring it to provide such a service of cars as will afford to the public the full benefit of the tramway, and such order may prescribe the number of cars which the company shall run upon the tramway and the mode and times in and at which such cars shall be run. Every such order shall be served upon the company within forty-eight hours after it has been made, and shall be published in the Gazette next following the making thereof. Provided that the Governor in Council shall, before issuing any such order, be satisfied that under good and economical management the prescribed service will be fairly remunerative to the company; and that, after the company has complied with such order for not less than thirty days, the Governor in Council may on the application of the company revoke or modify any such order.
28. If for the period of three months after the service of Procedure such order the company fails or neglects to comply therewith, compliance the tramway shall be deemed to be a tramway to which all the with order. provisions of this Ordinance relating to the discontinuance of the tramway after proof of such discontinuance shall apply, and it may be dealt with accordingly.
Discontinuance of tramway.
29. If the company discontinues the working of the tramway Discontinuance of or of any part thereof for the space of six months (such discontinuance not being occasioned by circumstances beyond the control of the company, for which purpose the want of sufficient funds shall not be considered a circumstance beyond its control) and such discontinuance is proved to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, the Governor in Council may by order declare that the powers of the company in respect of the tramway or the part thereof so discontinued shall from the date of such order be at an end, and thereupon the powers of the company
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.