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Formation and inspection of tramway.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 97. &c.
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2. Every tramway which is hereafter authorized under the authority of this Act, or of the Acts to be read together with this Act, shall be laid and maintained in such manner that the uppermost surface of the rail shall be on a level with the surface of any road along or across which the same shall be laid, and no tramway to be worked by a locomotive engine or other mechanical power shall be opened for public traffic until the same has been inspected and certified to be fit for such traffic by an engineer to be appointed for such purpose by the Board of Trade; and the Regulation of Railways Acts, 1840–1871, so far as circumstances will admit, and subject to the provisions of this Act, shall apply to every tramway to be worked by a locomotive engine or other mechanical power as if such tramway were a railway; and in the construction of the said Act for the purposes of this Act the term “company” in the said Acts shall include the owner of any such tramway.
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