Hastings Tramways Company (Trolley Vehicles) Act 1927
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1927 c. lxix |
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lxix.
Company {Trolley Vehicles) Act, 1927.
CHAPTER lxix.
An Act to authorise the Hastings Tramways
A.D.
1927.
Company to run trolley vehicles in substitution
for- their tramway and light railway services
and on other routes and for other purposes.
[29th July 1927.]
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HERE AS the Hastings Tramways Company (here-
inafter referred to as " the Company ") under and
by virtue of the Hastings Tramways Acts 1900 to 1921
are the owners of a system of tramways and light railways
in the county borough of Hastings and the borough of
Bexhill in the county of East Sussex :
And whereas it is expedient that the Company he
authorised to run trolley vehicles along the streets and
roads in the said boroughs in which tramways and light
railways of the Company are constructed or authorised
to be constructed in substitution for such tramways and
light railways and along certain other streets and roads
in those boroughs and that the provisions contained in
this Act with respect thereto should be enacted:
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions
of this Act be enacted :
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be
effected without the authority of Parliament:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may
be enacted and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent
Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present
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Hastings Tramways [17 &18
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Company {Trolley Vehicles) Act, 1927.•
A.D.
1927.
Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same
_— as follows :—
Short and
1.—(1)
This Act may be cited as the Hastings
collective Tramways Company (Trolley Vehicles) Act 1927.
titles (2) The Hastings Tramways Acts 1900 to 1921 and
this Act may be cited together as the Hastings Tramways
and Trolley Vehicles Acts 1900 to 1927.
Interpreta- 2. In this Act unless the subject or context otherwise
tion. requires—
"The Company" means the Hastings Tramways
Company;
"The Order of 1900" means the Bexhill and St.
Leonards Light Railway Order 1900;
"The Act of 1900 " "the Act of 1903 " "the Act
of 1905 " " the Act of 1920 " and " the Act of
1921 " mean respectively the Hastings Tram-
ways Act 1900 the Hastings Tramways (Exten-
sions) Act 1903 the Hastings Tramways Act 1905
the Hastings Tramways Act 1920 and the
Hastings Tramways Act 1921;
" The existing Acts " means the Hastings Tramways
Acts 1900 to 1921 and includes the Order of
1900;
" The existing tramways and light railways " means
the tramways and light railways constructed by
the Company under the powers of the existing
. Acts;
"The Pebsham Marsh section" means the portion
of railway No. 8 authorised by the Order of 1900
which is situate between the western end of the
track of that railway in Bexhill Road in the
county borough of Hastings and the junction of
Hastings Road and De la Warr Koad in the
borough of Bexhill;
"" The 1921 routes " means the routes iof the tram-
ways authorised by the Act of 1921;
" The new routes " means the routes described in,
paragraph (iii) of section 3 (Power to' use trolley
vehicles) of this Act;
" The Hastings Corporation" means the mayor
aldermen and burgesses of the county borough
of Hastings;
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Company {Trolley Vehicles) Act, 1927.
" The Bexhill Corporation " means the mayor alder- A.D. 1927.
men and burgesses of the borough of Bexhill; —
" The Minister " means the Minister of Transport;
" Trolley vehicle " means a mechanically propelled
vehicle adapted for use upon roads and moved
by electrical power transmitted thereto from
some external source;
"The trolley vehicles" means the trolley vehicles
provided worked and run by the Company
under the powers of this Act;
" Apparatus" includes all posts poles standards
brackets cables conductors tubes mains trans-
formers feeders wires and other apparattis
and equipment for the purpose of working
and lighting trolley vehicles;
" The trolley vehicle routes" means the routes
upon which the Company are by this Act
or by an order under the section of this Act
the marginal note whereof is " Minister of
Transport may authorise new routes " author-
ised to work and use trolley vehicles;
" Road authority" means with reference to any
road or part of a road over which any proposed
trolley vehicle service will pass the authority
company or person charged with or liable
to contribute to the maintenance of such
road or part of a road.
3.
The Company may subject to the provisions Power to
of this Act provide maintain and equip trolley vehicles use trolley
and work and run the same in the county borough vehicles.
of Hastings and the borough of Bexhill—
(i) along the routes of all or any of the existing
tramways and light railways other than the
Pebsham Marsh section;
(ii) along the 1921 routes; and
(hi) along the following routes (that is to say) :—
In the county borough of Hastings—
Commercial Road;
High Street;
Old London Road from High Street to
Priory Road;
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