Regulation of Railways Act, 1868

Proceedings in case of non-consumption of smoke.

8 & 9 Vict. c. 20.

19. Where proceedings are taken against a company using a locomotive steam engine on a railway on account of the same not consuming its own smoke, then if it appears to the justices before whom the complaint is heard that the engine is constructed on the principle of consuming its own smoke, but that it failed to consume its own smoke, as far as practicable, at the time charged in the complaint, through the default of the company, or of any servant in the employment of the company, such company shall be deemed guilty of an offence under the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, section one hundred and fourteen.