Mansfield District Traction Act 1929

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1929 c. lxxvi
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5.] Mansfield [Ch.
lxxvi.]
District Traction Act, 1929.
CHAPTER lxxvi.
AB
Act to authorise the Mansfield and District
A.D.
1929.
Light Railway Company to provide and run
trolley vehicles and omnibuses to change the
name of the Company and for other purposes.
[10th May 1929.]
rTpIEREAS the Mansfield and District Light Railway
VV Company (in this Act called " the Company")
were incorporated by the Mansfield and District Light
Railways Order 190]. and under the powers contained
in the Mansfield and District Light Railways Orders
1901 and 1907 have constructed and work a system
of light railways in the borough of Mansfield and the
urban districts of Mansfield Woodhouse Sutton-in-Ashfield
and Hucknall-under-Huthwaite in the county of Notting-
ham :
And whereas by the Mansfield and District Light
Railways (Extensions) Order 1920 and the Mansfield
and District Light Railways (Extensions &c.) Order
1926 the Company were authorised to construct addi-
tional light railways in the borough of Mansfield the
urban district of Mansfield Woodhouse and. the rural
districts of Southwell and Skegby and further powers
were conferred upon the Company :
And whereas the light railways authorised by
the said Orders of 1920 and 1926 have not been con-
structed by the Company:
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[Ch.
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Mansfield [19 & 20 GrEO. 5j
District Traction Act, 1929.
A.D.
1929^ And whereas it is expedient that the Company
be authorised to provide and run trolley vehicles along
the streets and roads in which the Hght railways of
the Company are constructed and along other routes
and to run omnibuses and that the provisions contained
in this Act with respect thereto should be enacted :
And whereas it is. expedient that the name of
the Company be changed as provided by this Act and
that such other powers be conferred upon the Company
and such other provisions be made as are in this Act
more particularly set forth :
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be
attained 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 Parliament assembled and by the
authority of the same as follows :—*
PRELIMINARY.
Short
title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Mansfield District
Traction Act 1929.
Citation of 2. The Mansfield and District Light Railways Orders
Acts.
1901 to 1926 and this Act may be cited together as
the Mansfield District Traction Acts 1901 to 1929.
Incorpora- 3. Part IV. (relating to change of name) of the
tion of Act. Companies Clauses Act 1863 as amended by subsequent
Acts is incorporated with and forms part of this Act.
Interpreta- 4. In this Act the several words and expressions
tion. to which meanings are assigned by the Acts wholly
or partially incorporated herewith have the same respec-
tive meanings unless there be something in the subject
or context repugnant to such construction And in
this Act unless the context.otherwise requires—-
" The Order of 1901 " " the Order of 1907 " " the
Order of 1920 " and "the Order of 1926 " mean
respectively the Mansfield and District Light
Railways Order 1901 the Mansfield and District
Light Railways (Extensions) Order 1907 the
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[19 & 20
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5.] Mansfield [Oh.
Ixxvi.]'
District Traction Act, 1929.
Mansneld and District Light Railways (Exten- A.D. 1929.
sions) Order 1920 and the Mansfield and
District Light Railways (Extensions &c.) Order
1926;
" The existing Orders " means the Mansfield and
District Light Railways Orders 1901 to 1926;
"The existing light railways" means the light
railways constructed by the Company under
the powers of the existing Orders;
" The authorised light railways " means the light
railways authorised by the Order of 1920
and the Qrder of 1926;
" 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 apparatus
and equipment for the purpose of working
and lighting trolley vehicles;
" 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 may
authorise new routes" authorised to work
and use trolley vehicles;
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Omnibus " shall have the meaning assigned to
that expression in section 14 of the Roads
Act 1920;
" Omnibus routes " means any routes upon which
the Company work and run omnibuses under
the section of this Act the marginal note
whereof is " Power to run omnibuses ";
" Specified routes " means the routes of the existing
light railways and the new routes described
in and authorised by subsection (2) of the
section of this Act the marginal note whereof
is " Power to use trolley vehicles ";
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