Wensum Valley Railway Act 1864
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1864 c. clxxxii |
| Year | 1864 |
ANNO VICESIMO SEPT1MO & VIOESIMO OCTAVO
VICTORLE REGINvE.
Cap.
clxxxii.
An Act for making Railways from the Great Eastern
Railway at East Dereham to Norwich, to be called
" The Wensum Valley Railway;" and for other
Purposes. [14th July 1864.]
HERE AS the making of Railways from the Fakenham
Branch and Lynn and Dereham Line of the Great
Eastern Railway, in the Parish of East Dereham in the
County of Norfolk, to the City of Norwich, as herein-after described,
would be of great public and local Advantage : And whereas the
Persons herein-after named, with others, are willing at their own
Expense to carry the said Undertaking into execution if authorized so
to do, and are desirous of being incorporated into a Company for that
Purpose: And whereas it is expedient that the Company hereby
incorporated (and herein-after called " the Company") and the
Great Eastern Railway Company should be empowered to enter into
such Arrangements as are herein-after mentioned with respect to the
Railways and "Works by this Act authorized to be constructed : And
whereas it is expedient that the Great Eastern Railway Company be
authorized to contribute towards the Funds of the Company, and to
raise Money for such Purpose : And whereas Plans and Sections of
the proposed Railways showing the Lines and Levels thereof and the
Lands which may be taken for the Purposes of this Act, and also
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Cap.clxxxil
The Wensum Valley Railway Act, 1864.
Books of Reference to the Plans containing the Names of the Owners
or reputed Owners, Lessees or reputed Lessees, and Occupiers of the
Lands have been deposited with the respective Clerks of the Peace
for the County of Norfolk and City of Norwich, and those Plans,
Sections, and Books of Reference are in this Act referred to as the
deposited Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference : And whereas the
•Objects of this Act cannot be effected without the Authority of Par-
liament
:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted;
and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with
the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
of the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
Authority of the same, as follows :
Short
Title.
1. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as " The Wensum
Valley Railway Act, 1864."
8&9Vict. 2. "The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," and Part 1
cc.
16. 18. relating to Cancellation and Surrender of Shares of " The Companies
23 &
24 Vict. Clauses Act,
1863,"
" The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,"
c 106., and "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment Act, i860,"
2fe2&Tl8'
" The Rauways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," and Part 1 relating
incor- to Construction of a Railway, and Part 3 relating to Working Agree-
porated. ments of « The Raiiwajs Clauses Act,
1863,"
(save so far as any of
the Sections and Provisions of those Acts respectively are by this Act.
expressly varied or excepted,) are incorporated with this Act.
Same
Mean-
3. The Expression "the Railway" used in this Act means the
ing
to Words
Railways and Works by this Act authorized, the Expression
TpateTActs "Superior Courts" or " Court of competent Jurisdiction," or any other
as in this like Expression in this Act, shall be read and have effect as if the
Act> Debt or -Demand with respect to which the Expression is used were
a common Simple Contract Debt, and not a Debt or Demand
created by Statute, the Words " Share" and " Shareholders"
shall include, where requisite, Stock and Shareholders, the Word
"Traffic" has the Meaning assigned to that Word by "The Rail-
way and Canal Traffic Act, 1854," and the several other Words and
Expressions to which by the Acts in whole or in part incorporated
with this Act Meanings are assigned have in this Act the same respec-
tive Meanings, unless there be in the Subject or-Context something
repugnant to or inconsistent with such Construction.
Subscribers 4. Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Theodore French, William Bunce
int°dP°"
Greenfield, Thomas Willis Fleming, Joseph Quick, and all other
Persons and Corporations who have already subscribed or shall here-
after subscribe to the Undertaking, and their Executors, Administra-
tors,
Successors, and Assigns respectively, are by this Act united
into a Company for the Purpose of making and maintaining the
Railway
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