§ SCHEME
§ prepared by the British Railways Board and submitted to the Minister of Transport for his aproval in accordance with paragraph 1(5) of the Sixth Schedule to the Transport Act 1962
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1.—(a) In this Scheme unless the context otherwise requires
the Minister" means the Minister of Transport;
the Railways Board" means the British Railways Board;
the other Boards" means the London Transport Board, the British Transport Docks Board and the British Waterways Board;
the Holding Company" means the Transport Holding Company;
the assets" means the property and rights comprised in that part of the undertaking of the British Transport Commission which constituted their Films Service immediately before the first day of January One thousand nine hundred and sixty-three and were transferred to the Railways Board on
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the first day of January One thousand nine hundred and sixty-three by Section 31(2)(f) of the Transport Act 1962;
the projection material and equipment" means so much of the assets as consists of cinematograph films film strips photographic slides and transparencies and apparatus for displaying them.
§ (b) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of this Scheme as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
§ 2. It shall be the duty of the Railways Board under this Scheme:—
- (a) subject to the provisions of paragraph 3(b) of this Scheme to preserve the projection material and equipment and;
- (b) to afford to each of the other Boards and the Holding Company reasonable facilities for borrowing any of the projection material and equipment on such terms and conditions as may be agreed between the parties from time to time or in the event of disagreement as may be determined by the Minister upon the application of either of them after notice to the other.
§ 3. The Railways Board may—
- (a) enter into agreements on such terms as they may think fit for the loan of any of the projection material and equipment to such persons as they think fit;
- (b) dispose by way of gift sale or otherwise of any of the projection material and equipment which in their opinion is no longer required to be preserved and
- (c) use for the purposes of their business any of the assets other than the projection material and equipment or dispose of any of those assets which in their opinion is not required by them for the purpose of their business.
§ 4. Before disposing of any of the projection material and equipment, other than apparatus, having special associations with the undertaking of any other Board or the Holding Company (in this paragraph referred to as "the interested Board"), the Railways Board shall give not less than one month's notice in writing to the interested Board of their intention to dispose of such projection material or equipment and if before the expiration of the period specified in the notice the interested Board give to the Railways Board a counter notice in writing requiring such projection material and equipment to be transferred to the interested Board the projection material and equipment shall be so transferred without payment but otherwise on such terms and conditions as may be agreed between the Railways Board and the interested Board or in the event of disagreement as may be determined by the Minister upon the application of either of them after notice to the other.
§ 5. This Scheme may be cited as the British Transport Films Service Scheme 1963 and shall come into operation on the first day of July One Thousand nine hundred and sixty-five.