Tramways (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1881

TRAMWAYS (IRELAND) AMENDMENT ACT 1881

CHAPTER XVII.

An Act to amend the Tramways (Ireland) Acts, 1860, 1861, and 1871. [27th June 1881.]

[Preamble recites 23 & 24 Vict. c. 152; 24 & 25 Vict. c. 102; 34 & 35 Vict. c. 114 (hereinafter called the Act of 1871), which said three Acts are together hereinafter referred to as the Tramway Acts.]

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Tramways (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1881.

Limitation of Act.

2. This Act shall only extend to Ireland.

Interpretation.

3. In this Act—

The expression “the Lord Lieutenant in Council” means the Lord Lieutenant acting by and with the advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland.

[S. 4 makes certain alterations in Sched. B. to 23 & 24 Vict. c. 152. See that Act.]

Regulations as to speed of locomotives on tramways.

5. Subject to the rules and regulations contained in section three of the Act of 1871, the Lord Lieutenant in Council, the grand jury of any county, or other authority empowered under the Tramway Acts to grant permission to construct a tramway or tramways, may permit the owners of any such tramway or tramways, or their servants duly authorised in that behalf, to drive any locomotive worked by steam along any such tramway at a speed not greater than ten miles an hour, or through any town or village at a speed not greater than six miles an hour, and where such permission has been obtained the provisions in section four of the Act of 1871 shall be deemed not to apply.

Alterations of 24 & 25 Vict. c. 102. s. 9.

6. In any case in which a petition of appeal is presented to the Lord Lieutenant in Council against any undertaking which shall have been approved by the grand jury and the said appeal is not proceeded with it shall be considered as having entirely failed, and it shall not be necessary for the promoters to get the said order confirmed by Act of Parliament as required by the ninth section of the Tramways (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1861.

Alterations of 23 & 24 Vict. c. 152. s. 6. and 34 & 35 Vict. c. 114. s. 4.

7. Where any tramway is proposed to be laid alongside any public road it shall not be necessary to construct as required by the sixth section of the Tramways (Ireland) Act, 1860, and of the Act of 1871 the same on a level with the said public road, provided that a clear roadway of eighteen feet is left between the said tramway and the opposite footpath, or roadside boundary in case there is no footpath, and that, in case any footpath be interfered with, the promoters make another footpath in place of that interfered with; provided also, that no such deviation from the ordinary level of the road shall be permitted unless authorised by the Lord Lieutenant in Council and by the grand jury of the county or other authority empowered under the Tramway Acts to grant permission for the construction of such tramway.

Tramway Acts and this Act to be read as one.

8. The Tramway Acts (as amended by this Act) and this Act shall be read together and construed as one Act.