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TRAMWAYS (IRELAND) AMENDMENT ACT 1871

TRAMWAYS (IRELAND) AMENDMENT ACT 1871 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Tramways (Ireland) Acts, 1860 and 1861.{1}
[21st August 1871]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1893 (No.2)

TRAMWAYS (IRELAND) AMENDMENT ACT 1871 - SECT 1
Tramways may be worked by mechanical power.

1. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Tramways (Ireland) Act,
1860, the [council] of any county may approve of any application
for authority to make and maintain a tramway to be worked by a
locomotive engine or other mechanical power, and the Lord Lieutenant
may make an Order in Council authorizing the making and maintaining
of such tramway, subject to such conditions and restrictions as the
[council] or the Lord Lieutenant respectively may think fit to make
with respect to the speed at which any train upon such tramway
should be moved, or the nature of the traffic to be conveyed on
such tramways. The term "[council] of any county" in this section
shall include all and any of the parties or persons mentioned in
section thirty-eight of the Tramways Act, 1860, and thereby declared
in the cases therein mentioned to be in the place of the [council]
and having and being subject to all the like rights, powers, and
duties.

TRAMWAYS (IRELAND) AMENDMENT ACT 1871 - SECT 2
Formation and inspection of tramway.

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, 18401871, 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.

Ss.3, 4 rep. by SLR (NI) 1954

TRAMWAYS (IRELAND) AMENDMENT ACT 1871 - SECT 5
Construction.

5. The Tramways (Ireland) Act, 1860, and the Tramways (Ireland)
Amendment Act, 1861, as amended by this Act, and this Act shall be
read together as one Act.