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[49 VICT.]

Bailway and Canal Trafic.

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DRAFT

OF A

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BILL

TO

Make better provision for carrying into effect the Railway A.D. 1880.

and Canal Traffic Act, 1854, and the Regulation of Rail-

ways Acts, and for other purposes.

BE

E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

2. This Act may be cited as the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, Short title.

1886.

2. This Act shall commence and come into operation on the Commence- first day of October one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

ment.

tion.

3. This Act shall be read and construed as one with the Regu- Construc 10 lation of Railways Act, 1878 (in this Act referred to as the

principal Act), and the Acts amending the same; and the principal Act, and this Act may be cited together as the Railway and Canal Traffic Acts, 1873 and 1886.

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PART I.—COURT AND PROCEDURE OF RAILWAY

COMMISSIONERS.

Commission

4. (1.) The principal Act, as amended by subsequent Acts, is Railway hereby made perpetual, and the Railway Commissioners (in this Act to be a court referred to as the Commissioners), as constituted by the principal of record. Act, and as continued and constituted by this Act, shall be a

20 superior court of record.

(2.) One of the Commissioners, who shall be styled the Chief Commissioner, shall preside over the Court of the Commissioners as constituted by the principal Act and this Act, and shall be a person of experience in the law.

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