Great Northern Railway Act 1898
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1898 c. clxv |
| Year | 1898 |
[61
&
62 VICT.] Great Northern Railway Act, 1898. [Oh. clxv.]
CHAPTER clxv.
An Act to confer further powers upon the Great Northern
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Railway Company with respect to their own under-
taking and undertakings in which they are jointly
interested and for other purposes. [25th July 1898.]
W
HEREAS it is expedient that the Great Northern Railway
Company (herein-after referred to as "the Company")
should be authorised—
To make and maintain the railways and works herein-after
described;
To widen and improve certain portions of their railway;
To abolish certain level crossings of their railway and otherwise
to deal with certain roads and footpaths connected with their
undertaking;
To purchase and acquire additional lands and easements for the
purposes of their undertaking ; and
To raise capital for the purposes of this Act and other the general
purposes of their undertaking :
And whereas by Scale II. of the Schedule to the Great Northern
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Railway Company (Rates and Charges) Order 1891 confirmed by c-ccxv-
the Great Northern Railway Company (Rates and Charges) Order
Confirmation Act 1891 (herein-after referred to as " the Great
Northern (Rates and Charges) Order") special rates and charges
were authorised to be levied on certain portions of the undertaking
of the Company and it is expedient that the same scale be made
applicable to certain of the railways by this Act authorised:
And whereas it is expedient that the period limited by tho
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Great Northern Railway Act 1891 for the compulsory purchase of C-X1X-
lands for the purposes of the widening of the Luton to Dunstable
Branch Railway of the Company thereby authorised (nhich period
"was extended by the Great Northern Railway Act 1895) should
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be further extended : c- xxxvL
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[Ch. clxv.] Great Northern Railway Act, 1898. [61 & G2 VICT.]
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1898. And whereas it is expedient that the Great Northern and Great
Eastern Joint Committee constituted under the powers of the
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Qreat
Northern and Great Eastern Railway Companies Act 1879
c'cx" should be enabled to construct the work and exercise the powers
herein-after described in the county of Nottingham and that in
connexion with such work the said joint committee and the Great
Eastern Railway Company should be authorised to apply their
existing funds :
And whereas it is expedient that the time prescribed for the
sale of lands acquired by the Company and by the Company jointly
with other companies under the powers of various Acts and not yet
applied to the purposes of the undertakings in respect of which
they were so acquired should be extended :
And whereas it is expedient that the several agreements and
heads of agreement as set forth in the Second and Third Schedules
to this Act should be confirmed :
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions herein-after
contained should be made :
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels
of the railways and other works authorised by this Act and
the lands to be taken for the purposes thereof and plans of the
additional lands authorised to be taken under the powers of this Act
and also books of reference containing the names of the owners
and lessees or reputed owners and lessees and of the occupiers of
all such lands so far as those documents relate to lands in each
county or division herein-after mentioned were duly deposited with
the clerks of the peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire and for
the counties of Bedford Derby Hertford Huntingdon Lancaster
London Middlesex Nottingham and Rutland and for the parts of
Kesteven and the parts of Lindsey in Lincolnshire and the said
documents are herein-after respectively referred to as the deposited
plans sections and books of reference:
And whereas the objects of this Act cannot be attained without
the authority of Parliament:
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 Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the
authority of the same as follows:—
Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Great Northern Railway Act
1898.
Incorpora- 2. The following Acts and parts of Acts are (excepting where
general
Acts.
tlie same are exPressty varied by or are inconsistent with the
[61 & 62 VICT.] Great Northern Hallway Act, 1898. [Ch. clxv.]
provisions of this Act) incorporated with and form part of this Act
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1898.
namely:— '
The Lands Clauses Acts;
The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 ; and
Part I. (Construction of a Railway) and Part II. (Extension of
Time) of the Railways Clauses Act 1863.
3.
Subject to the provisions of this Act the provisions of the Extending
Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 with respect to the certain
following matters (that is to say):- oZ^ of
The distribution of the capital of the Company into shares; Clauses
The transfer or transmission of shares; : Acts-
The payment of subscriptions and the means of enforcing the
payment of calls;
The forfeiture of shares for non-payment of calls;
The remedies of creditors of the Company against the share-
holders ;
The borrowing of money by the Company on mortgage or bond;
The conversion of borrowed money into capital;
The consolidation of shares into stock;
The general meetings of the Company and the exercise of the
right of voting by the shareholders ;
The making of dividends;
The giving of notices ; and
The provision to be made for affording access to the special Act
by all parties interested;
and Parts I. II. and III. of the Companies Clauses Act 1863
(relating respectively to the cancellation and surrender of shares to
additional capital and to debenture stock) shall be applicable to the
capital and moneys hereby authorised' to be raised by Shares or
stock or mortgage and to the proprietors
thereof.
4.
In this Act the several words and expressions to which Interpreta-
meanings are assigned by the Acts wholly or partly incorporated lon'
herewith have the same respective meanings unless there be some-
thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction :
"Parish clerks" and "clerks of the several parishes" in
sections 7 8 and 9 of the Railways Clauses Consolidation
Act 1845 shall with reference to the Company and as regards
the respective parishes of Saint Mary Islington and Saint
Pancras mean the vestry clerks of the parishes of Saint Mary
Islington and Saint Pancras respectively;
The expression "the county of London" means the adminis-
trative county of London exclusive of the city of London,
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