HL Deb 10 August 1896 vol 44 cc294-5

(1.) If the Board of Trade hold a local Inquiry for the purposes of this Act, Part I. of the Board of Trade Arbitrations, etc., Act, 187*1, shall apply to any Inquiry so hold, as if—

  1. (a) the Inquiry was held on an application made in pursuance of a special Act; and
  2. (b) the parties making the application for the Order authorising the light railway, and in the case of an Inquiry held with reference to an objection made to any such application the persons making the objection in addition, were parties to the application within the meaning of section three of the Act.

(2.) The Board of Trade may make such rules as they think necessary for regulating the time within which objections must be made, the manner in which any notice under this Act must be given, and any other matters which they may think expedient to regulate by rule for the purpose of carrying this Act into effect.

(3.) There shall be charged in respect of proceedings under this Act before the Board of Trade or the Light Railway Commissioners such fees as may be fixed by the Treasury on the recommendation of the Board of Trade.

(4.) Any expenses of the Board of Trade under this Act shall, except so far as provision is made for their payment by or under this Act, be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

(5.) The Board of Trade shall present to Parliament annually a report of their proceedings and of the proceedings of the Light Railway Commissioners under this Act.

*THE EARL OF DUDLEY

moved, in Sub-section (2), to leave out the words— time within which objections must be made, the manner in which any notice under this Act must be given, and to insert instead thereof the words— procedure under this Act, whether before the Board of Trade or before the Light Railway Commissioners.

This Amendment was to make it quite clear that the rules made by the Board of Trade should apply both to the procedure before the Light Railway Commissioners and before the Board of Trade. There was a little ambiguity about the words as the Bill at present stood.

Amendment agreed to.

*The EARL OF DUDLEY

moved, after the word "effect," to insert the words— and provision shall be made by such rules for the deposit and inspection of plans relating to the railway.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 15, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.

Clauses 16 to 18 inclusive ordered to stand part of the Bill.

Clause 19,—