Railways Act, 1924

Charges of non-amalgamated companies.

31.—The rates, fares, tolls and dues charged by railway companies other than the amalgamating and absorbed companies at the passing of this Act shall, in so far as they relate to those portions of their undertakings situate in Saorstát Eireann, remain in force as maximum charges unless and until altered in accordance with this section:

Provided that at any time after the passing of this Act—

(i) any representative body of railway users may apply to the railway tribunal to reduce the aforesaid charges or any of them;

(ii) any trader interested in any particular charge may apply to the railway tribunal to reduce that charge;

(iii) any such company may apply to the railway tribunal to increase the aforesaid charges or any of them;

(iv) any amalgamating or absorbed company or the amalgamated company or any representative body of traders or a body of persons representative of trade or a locality may apply to the railway tribunal to modify any reduction made by any such company in the aforesaid charges or any of them otherwise than under an order of the railway tribunal.

Any such application shall be published in such a manner as the railway tribunal prescribe and the tribunal after hearing all parties interested and who are desirous of being heard may make such modifications in the said charges or any of them as to the tribunal may seem just, and shall fix a day upon which the modifications are to come into force.