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CAP. 107]
[s. 57 cont.]
(Cap. 227.)
Fares, etc.,
to be sued for within six months.
Company
to be responsible for all damage through its act or default.
Right of
user of
roads only acquired.
Power to police to regulate traffic.
Rights of public reserved.
Tramway.
recovered before a magistrate, and the provisions of the Magistrates Ordinance, shall apply to every proceeding before, and every order by, a magistrate under this section.
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58. No person shall be liable to the payment of any fare, charge, fine or forfeiture imposed by virtue of this Ordinance for any offence made cognizable before a magistrate unless the complaint respecting such offence has been made before such magistrate within six months next after the commission of such offence.
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59. The company shall be answerable for all accidents, damages and injuries happening through its act or default, or through the act or default of any person in its employment, by reason or in consequence of any of its works or cars, and shall save harmless all departments, and persons collectively and individually, and their officers and servants, from all damages and costs in respect of such accidents, damages and injuries.
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60. Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance, the company shall not acquire any right other than that of user of the roads along or across which the tramway is laid.
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61. Nothing in this Ordinance shall limit the powers of the police to regulate the passage of any traffic along or across any public road along or across which the tramway is laid, and the police may exercise their powers as well on as off the tramway and with respect as well to the traffic of the company as to the traffic of other persons, and in particular nothing in this Ordinance shall limit the power of the Commissioner of Police under any Ordinance to make regulations with reference to traffic.
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62. Nothing in this Ordinance shall take away or abridge the right of the public to pass along or across every or any part of any public road along or across which the tramway is laid, whether on or off the tramway, with carriages, cars or vehicles not having flange-wheels suitable only to run on the rails of the tramway.
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