Great Northern Railway Act, 1953

Abandonment of railway lines.

26.—(1) Where the Board becomes entitled under this Part to terminate wholly the services provided on any railway line, the Minister, on the application of the Board, may by order (in this Act referred to as an abandonment order) authorise the Board to abandon the line.

(2) Subsections (3), (4), (5), (6) and (8) of section 21 of the Transport Act, 1950 (No. 12 of 1950), shall apply to an abandonment order, references to “the Board” being construed as references to the Board established by this Act.