(Trolley Vehicles) Provisional Order. A BILL ΤΟ Confirm a Provisional Order made by the Minister A.D. 1927. of Transport under the Maidstone Corporation Act 1923 relating to Maidstone Corporation WHEREAS under the authority of section seventeen WHE of the Maidstone Corporation Act 1923 the 13 & 14 Minister of Transport has made the Provisional Order Geo. 5. set out in the schedule to this Act annexed: 5 And whereas a Provisional Order made by the Minister of Transport under the authority of the said section is not of any validity or force whatever until the confirmation thereof by Act of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that the Provisional 10 Order made by the Minister of Transport under the authority of the said section and set out in the schedule to this Act annexed be confirmed by Act of Parliament : Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the 15 Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows: 20 c. xxxi. 1. This Act may be cited as the Maidstone Cor- Short title. poration (Trolley Vehicles) Order Confirmation Act 1927. 2. The Order set out in the schedule to this Act Confirmaannexed shall be and the same is hereby confirmed tion of [Bill 142] A Order in schedule. (Trolley Vehicles) Provisional Order. A.D. 1927. and all the provisions thereof in manner and form as they are set out in the said schedule shall from and after the passing of this Act have full force and validity and the date of the same shall be the date of the passing of this Act. 5 (Trolley Vehicles) Provisional Order. SCHEDULE. A.D. 1927. 5 10 15 MAIDSTONE CORPORATION (TROLLEY Order authorising the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Maidstone to use trolley vehicles upon routes in the borough of Maidstone and the parish of Loose. 1. This Order may be cited as the Maidstone Corporation Short title. (Trolley Vehicles) Order 1927. 2. The Lands Clauses Acts except (a) the provisions of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act (b) section 127 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act are (subject to the provisions of and so far as applicable for the Incorpora tion of Acts. 3. In this Order the following expressions have unless the Interpreta20 subject or context otherwise requires the meaning hereinafter tion. assigned to them (namely) : 25 30 66 The Corporation " means the mayor aldermen and burgesses "The borough" means the borough of Maidstone; "The borough fund" and "the borough rate" mean 66 Trolley vehicle routes means the routes upon which the "Trolley vehicle" has the meaning assigned to it by sec- "The Act of 1923" means the Maidstone Corporation Act A.D. 1927. (Trolley Vehicles) Provisional Order. 4. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Order the Corporation may provide maintain and equip (but shall not manufacture) Power to use trolley vehicles and may use the same upon the following trolley trolley vehicle routes in the borough and in the parish of Loose (that is to say) : .vehicles. 5 Route No. 1 (one mile seven furlongs two chains in length) Route No. 2 (two miles three furlongs six chains in length) Route No. 4 (one mile four furlongs four chains in length) Provided that before equipping any route for working trolley vehicles to include a turning point or before arranging for a new 30 turning point on any route the Corporation shall submit plans of the turning point to the Minister of Transport for approval Provided also that in erecting placing or maintaining any standard post pole conductor main or other apparatus over upon adjoining the London or Tonbridge Road tunnel of the Southern 35 Railway Company the Corporation shall not in any way interfere with the structure of the said tunnel. or (2) (a) When an order has not been made by the Minister of Transport under the section of this Order of which the marginal note is "As to abandonment of light railways" in relation to any 40 light railways along trolley vehicle routes it shall not be necessary to provide a service of light railway cars upon the route of any of such light railways along which a service of trolley vehicles is provided by the Corporation under the provisions of this Order so long as such service of trolley vehicles continues to be so 45 provided. (Trolley Vehicles) Provisional Order. (b) As from the date upon which and so long as a service of A.D. 1927. trolley vehicles is provided by the Corporation upon the route or routes of any of the light railways of the Corporation the revenue of the light railway undertaking of the Corporation shall 5 (to such extent as the Corporation may from time to time by resolution determine) cease to be charged with any expenses incurred by the Corporation upon or in connection with the maintenance and repair of roads under any statutory enactment relating to that undertaking but nothing in this subsection shall 10 relieve the Corporation of any liability attaching to them in respect of such maintenance and repair. 5. The Corporation may adapt and use for the purpose of Adaptation working trolley vehicles any apparatus and equipment already of existing provided by them for working light railways in streets or roads equipment. 15 along which they are or may be authorised to run trolley vehicles. 6.-(1) At any time after the passing of this Order the As to abanMinister of Transport may by order authorise or require the donment of abandonment or discontinuance temporarily or permanently of light rail20 the light railways for the time being along the route of which the Corporation have provided and equipped trolley vehicles under the provisions of this Order. 25 (2) Before making any such order the Minister of Transport may hold such inquiry as he may consider desirable. (3) Any order made under the provisions of this section may as from such date as may be specified therein provide for the cesser of all or any of the powers liabilities duties or obligations conferred or imposed by any Act or Order relating to the light railways to be abandoned or discontinued in pursu30 ance of such order and may provide for the removal of the rails of such light railways and the restoration of the portion of the road upon which such rails were laid to as good a condition as that in which it was before such rails were laid down. (4) Where the Minister of Transport causes any inquiry to 35 be held under the provisions of this section all expenses incurred by the Minister in relation to that inquiry shall be paid as the Minister may by order direct and the Minister may certify the amount of the expenses incurred and any sum so certified and directed by the Minister to be paid shall be a debt due to the 40 Crown. ways. 7. The provisions of Part II. (Trolley vehicles omnibuses Application and light railways) of the Act of 1923 (except section 13 of that of Part II. Act) and of the enactments incorporated therewith or applied of Act of thereby in so far as those provisions relate to trolley vehicles 45 and are not inconsistent with or rendered unnecessary by the provisions of this Order shall extend and apply to and in respect 1923. |