Dublin United Tramways (Lucan Electric Railways) Act, 1927

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Number 2 (Private) of 1927.

DUBLIN UNITED TRAMWAYS (LUCAN ELECTRIC RAILWAYS) ACT, 1927.

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Number 2 (Private) of 1927.

DUBLIN UNITED TRAMWAYS (LUCAN ELECTRIC RAILWAYS) ACT, 1927.

AN ACT TO AUTHORISE THE DUBLIN UNITED TRAMWAYS COMPANY (1896) LIMITED TO ACQUIRE THE UNDERTAKINGS OF THE DUBLIN AND LUCAN AND THE LUCAN AND LEIXLIP ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANIES AND TO ALTER AND MAINTAIN THE EXISTING LINES OF THESE COMPANIES AND TO ENABLE THE COMPANY TO ACT AS ELECTRICITY UNDERTAKERS AND TO AMEND CERTAIN ACTS RELATING TO THE COMPANY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. [13th May, 1927.]

WHEREAS by the Dublin United Tramways Acts and Orders, 1871 to 1905, the Dublin United Tramways Company (1896), Limited, hereinafter called the Company, is empowered to construct own maintain and work certain electric tramways in the City and County of Dublin and the surrounding districts and in exercise of the powers by said Acts and Orders conferred has constructed owns maintains and works tramways in the City and County of Dublin and the districts aforesaid:

AND WHEREAS under and in pursuance of various Orders in Council made under the Tramways (Ireland) Acts, 1860 to 1891, the Dublin and Lucan Electric Railway Company are the owners of an electric railway in the City and County of Dublin between Conyngham Road and the town of Lucan:

AND WHEREAS under certain powers conferred by the Lucan and Leixlip Electric Railway Order, 1910, the Lucan and Leixlip Electric Railway Company are the owners of an electric railway in the County of Dublin between the town of Lucan and Doddsborough corner:

AND WHEREAS it is to the interests of the public and in particular of the residents of the City and County of Dublin and of the town of Lucan and the surrounding districts that the Company should be authorised to acquire the railways and undertakings of the Dublin and Lucan and the Lucan and Leixlip Electric Railway Companies and to reconstruct alter and relay the said railways with a gauge of the same width, viz.: five feet three inches as the existing tramways in the City and County of Dublin already owned by the Company and to work the said railways in connection with the said tramways:

AND WHEREAS by Order of the High Court of Justice dated 26th day of January, 1926, a Liquidator was appointed for the purpose of winding-up the said Dublin and Lucan Electric Railway Company:

AND WHEREAS by Agreement dated 7th day of December, 1926, and made between the Dublin and Lucan Electric Railway Company (in liquidation) of the one part and the Company of the other part the said Dublin and Lucan Electric Railway Company (in liquidation) agreed to sell and the Company agreed to purchase the undertaking of the Dublin and Lucan Electric Railway Company and all the property and assets thereof the particulars of which are set out in the Schedule thereto:

AND WHEREAS by Agreement dated 4th day of January, 1927, and made between the shareholders of the Lucan and Leixlip Electric Railway Company of the one part and the Company of the other part the said shareholders agreed to sell and the Company agreed to purchase all the shares of and in the Lucan and Leixlip Electric Railway Company:

AND WHEREAS by sub-section (3) of section 13 of the Dublin United Tramways Act, 1905, the Company is prohibited from carrying on or taking any financial interest in any undertaking other than their generating station and tramways by that Act transferred to and vested in the Company and such extensions of or additions to those tramways as might by Order in Council thereafter be authorised:

AND WHEREAS by section 48 of the Dublin United Tramways (Electrical Power) Act, 1897, and sub-section (2) of section 13 of the Dublin United Tramways Act, 1905, the Company is prohibited from using electrical power save for lighting and moving the carriages used on the tramways and lighting the premises of the Company and operating machinery therein and for lighting standards or posts for their own use:

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the Company should be empowered to supply and sell electricity for light and power in the town of Lucan and the districts heretofore supplied by the railways to be acquired by the Company in pursuance of the provisions of this Act:

AND WHEREAS it is expedient for the more efficient working of the said railways that the Company should be authorised to exercise and carry out the various other powers matters and things with respect to the said railways as provided by this Act:

AND WHEREAS plans and sections showing the lines situations and levels of the several works authorised by this Act with a book of reference containing the names of the Local Authorities in whose districts the said works are to be executed have been deposited with the Principal Clerk of the Private Bill Office at his Office, Leinster House, Dublin:

AND WHEREAS the purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the authority of the Oireachtas:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—