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12. Further provisions as to construction of tramway
In addition to the requirements of section 10, the company shall, when it gives notice as aforesaid to the Director of its intention to open or break up any road for any of the purposes aforesaid, lay before the Director, if so required by him, a cross section showing the proposed mode of constructing, laying down, maintaining, renewing, altering, adding to or removing the tramway or works in respect of which it proposes to open or break up such road, and a statement of the materials intended to be used therein; and the company shall not commence the construction, laying down, maintenance, renewal, alteration of, addition to or removal of such tramway or works, or any part thereof respectively, except for the purpose of necessary repairs, until the required cross section and statement, if any, have been approved by the Director; and the work shall be executed under the superintendence and to the satisfaction of the Director, and where there are an approved cross section and statement in accordance therewith.
(Amended 5 of 1924 s. 8; 48 of 1962 s. 6)
13. Repair of roads on which tramway laid
The company shall, at its own expense, at all times maintain and keep in good condition and repair, with such materials and in such manner as the Director may direct and to his satisfaction, so much of any road whereon any tramway belonging to the company is laid as lies between the rails of the tramway and (where a double line of tramway is laid by the company in any road, the lines being not more than 1.5 m apart) the portion of the road between the two lines of tramway, and in every case so much of the road as extends 0.5 m from the running edge of the table of each rail of and on each side of any such tramway. Except as aforesaid the company shall not be liable to pay for the cost of the maintenance or repair of any road whereon the tramway is laid.
(Amended 50 of 1911; 1 of 1912 Schedule; 33 of 1939 Schedule; 48 of 1962 s. 7; L.N. 156 of 1977)
14. Maintenance and level of rails
The company shall maintain in good condition and repair, and at their proper level so as not to be a danger or annoyance to the ordinary traffic, the rails of which the tramway for the time being consists, and the substructure upon which the same rest.
15. Alteration of track
(Amended 48 of 1962 s. 8)
(1) If the Director is of the opinion that it is necessary or desirable, to enable him to carry out any works in any road or for the better regulation of traffic in any road, including any road over which no tramway passes, that the
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