(Trolley Vehicles) Provisional Order.

A.D. 1927. of the trolley vehicle routes authorised by this Order as if the same were with any necessary modifications set out in this Order Provided that for the purposes of such extension and application

As to lands.

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(a) Section 8 (Vehicles not to be deemed light locomotives 5
or motor cars) of the Act of 1923 shall be read and
have effect as if the words omnibuses within the
" meaning of the Town Police Clauses Act 1889 nor shall
they be deemed to be were inserted after the words
shall not be deemed to be" and the words "or of 10
"the byelaws and regulations made thereunder" were
omitted and the words "(except subsection (1) of
"section 1 and the provisions necessary for enforcing that
"subsection section 6 and the provisions as amended

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by the Roads Act 1920 relating to the licensing and 15
"licences of drivers) and subject to that exception
"neither the Motor Car Acts 1896 and 1903 nor any
"byelaws or regulations made thereunder" were sub-
stituted for the words "(except subsection (1) of
"section 1 of that Act and the provisions necessary for 20
"enforcing that subsection) and subject to that excep-
"tion neither that Act nor the regulations made under
"that Act":

(b) Subsection (B) (4) of section 58 (For the protection of
the Postmaster-General) of the Maidstone Corporation 25
Light Railways Order 1903 shall be read and have
effect as if the words "generated or used by or supplied
"to the Corporation enter any of the Corporation's
works were inserted in that subsection in substitution
for the words "generated for the purposes of this Order 30
"at any works of the Corporation enter thereon."

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8. The Corporation may

(a) subject to the sanction of the Minister of Health and
under such conditions as he may prescribe from time
to time appropriate and use for any of the purposes 35
of this Order but subject to the provisions (if any)
under which such lands were respectively acquired
any lands vested in them but not dedicated to public

use;

(b) by agreement from time to time purchase and acquire 40
for the purposes of their trolley vehicle undertaking
such lands as they may require and may from time
to time sell let or dispose of any such lands which
may not be necessary for such purpose Provided
that all sums received by the Corporation from the 45
sale of such lands or from fines or premiums on
leases of the same shall be applied solely in repayment

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of outstanding loans and that such moneys shall not A.D. 1927.
be applied to the payment of instalments or to
payments into the sinking fund except to such extent
and upon such terms as may be approved by the
Minister of Health:

Provided that

(i) the Corporation shall not at any time under the pro-
visions of this section hold for such purposes more
than five acres of land;

(ii) nothing in this section shall exonerate the Corporation
from any indictment action or other proceeding for
nuisance in the event of any nuisance being caused
or permitted by them upon lands appropriated or
taken under the powers of this section.

9.-(1) The Corporation may from time to time independently Powers to of any other borrowing power borrow at interest for the purposes borrow. mentioned in the first column of the following table the respective sums mentioned in the second column thereof and in order to secure the repayment of the said sums and the payment of interest 20 thereon they may mortgage or charge the revenue of the light railway undertaking of the Corporation and the borough fund and borough rate and they shall pay off all moneys so borrowed within the respective periods mentioned in the third column of the said table namely

(2) (a) The Corporation may also with the consent of the Minister of Transport borrow such further money as may be

(Trolley Vehicles) Provisional Order.

A.D. 1927. necessary for any of the purposes of their trolley vehicle undertaking.

Application

of financial provisions of Act of 1923.

(b) In order to secure the repayment of any money borrowed under this subsection and the payment of interest thereon the Corporation may mortgage or charge such revenue 5 fund or rate as may be prescribed by the Minister of Transport.

(c) Any money borrowed under this subsection shall be repaid within such period as may be prescribed by the Minister of Transport.

(3) The provisions of this section prescribing the revenue 10 fund or rate which may be mortgaged or charged shall not limit the powers conferred upon the Corporation by Article II. (Power to use one form of mortgage for all purposes) of the Maidstone Order 1916.

10. The following sections of the Act of 1923 shall with any 15 necessary modifications extend and apply to the exercise of the powers of this Order as if the same were re-enacted in this Order (that is to say)—

(Certain provisions of Public Health Acts not to apply);

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Costs of
Order.

11. The costs charges and expenses preliminary to and of and incidental to the preparing applying for obtaining and passing of this Order as taxed by the taxing officer of the House of Lords or the House of Commons shall be paid by the Corpora- 35 tion out of the borough fund and borough rate or out of the money to be borrowed under the powers of this Order for that purpose.

Presented by Colonel Ashley.

Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 24 May 1927.

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