Midland Railway (Additional Powers) Act 1883
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1883 c. cxi |
| Year | 1883 |
CHAPTER
cxi.
An
Act to confer Additional Powers
upon
the Midland
AD.
1883.
Railway Company for the Construction
of
Railways and
other
Works
and the Acquisition
of
Lands:
For Con-
firming
Agreements
with other Companies
:
For raising
further Capital
:
and for other purposes. [16th
July
1883.1
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THEREAS
it
is
expedient that the Midland Railway Company (New
Rail-
(in this Act called the Company) should be empowered to otherworks ways
ancl
construct the New Railways Roads and Footpaths and execute the
Additional
other works and exercise the other powers in this Act mentioned Lands
kc*)
and also to acquire additional lands for the purposes of this Act
and
for
extending their station siding warehouse coal wharf dep8t
mineral goods and other accommodation and
for
other purposes
connected with their Undertaking
:
authorised to maintain the widening of their Trent and Leicester
Level
Railway a9 constructed across and on the level of their Syston and
Crossing).
Peterborough Branch at
or
near the junction
of
the said Branch
with the said Railway at Syston.
of
the Railways and
Works
by this Act authorised and Plans
showing the lands required or which may be taken for the purposes
or under the powers
of
this Act and also Books
of
Reference
to those Plans containing the names of the owners and lessees or
reputed owners and lessees and of the occupiers of the said lands
were duly deposited with the Clerks of the Peace for the several
counties within which ihe said Railways and Works will be made
and the said lands are situate and those Plans Sections and
Books
of
Reference are in
this
Act referred to as the deposited Plans
Sections and Books of Reference respectively
:
conferred upon the Company with respect to the Eale or other
And whereas
it
is expedient that the Company should be
(‘rrentand
Leicester
And whereas Plans and Sections showing the lines and levels (Deposit
of
Plans).
And whereas
it
is expedient that further powers should be
(Supelfluous
Lands).
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A
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Bridge
Railway
Company).
(Addition:il
Capital).
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titlc.
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tioii
ot‘
General
Acts.
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(lispsal of lands acquired
by
them which arc not
or
eventually
may
not
be reqiiircd for the piirposes of their Undertaking
:
And
whereas
it
is
expedient that tho *4greenient between the
Company and the Hull Barnsloy ancl Vest Riding Junction
R
ailw:iy
aiid
Dock
Company wt foyth
ill
the
Third
Schedule to this Act
should bc confirmed and made binding
on
the parties thereto
:
And whereas
it
is expedient that the Agreemeiit between tho
Company
and the Severn Bridge Railway Company set forth
in
the
-
(Hi111
Barnsley
&c.)
(Agreement
with
Severn
Fourth Schedule
to
this Act should be confirmed and made binding
on
tlie parties thereto
:
And whereas
it
is
expedient that tho Company should be
empowered
to
raise additional capital
for
the purposes
of
the
1Zailw.nys and
Works
by this Act authorised and
also
for the
making and enlargement
of
stations sidings warehouses engine-shcds
workshops coal dep6ts and other works and conveniences for the
accommodation
of
the increased ancl increasing traffic on their
Railways and for completing the purchase
of
lands and buildings
for any of the above-mentioned purposes and for providing
additional plant and rolling-stock block and interlocking signals and
€or the general purposes
of
their Underlaking
:
And whereas the objects
of
this Act cannot be effected
without
Ihc autlioiity of Parliainent
;
May
it therefore pleaso Your
Majesty
that
it
may be Enacted
and
be it Enacted by the Quem’s Most Excellent Majesty
by
and
with
the
advice and consent of the‘ Lords Spiritual and Temporal
and
Commons
in this present l’arliainent assembled and by the
tmtliority of
the
same
as
follows
:--
1.
This Act may be cited €or all purposes as theMidlaiid Railway
(Additional
Powers)
Act
1883.
2.
The
following ,Qcts
mid
parts of Acts are except wherc:
expressly varicd by this Act incorporated with and
form
part
of
this Act (that is to
say)
:-
The
Tlands Clauses (’onsolidation Acts
1845
7860
and 1869
:
The
Railways Clauses Consoliclation Act
1845
:
Part
I.
(relating to the Construction
of
a
Railway) and Part
113.
(relating to Working Agreements)
of
the Railways Clauses
Act
1863
:
The prorisions
of
the Conipaiiies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845
with respect to the following matters namely
:
The Trtziisfer and Transmission of Shares
:
The
Payment of Subscriptions aiid the Means of enforcing
‘i’ho
Forfeiture
of
Shares ror Non-payment
of
Calls
;
the
YaS’l~lClIt
of
Chlls
;
2
The Remedies
of
Shareholders
;
The Borrowing
of
Bond
;
The Convemion of
Creditors
of
the Company against the
A.D-1883.
-
Money by the Company on Mortgage or
Borrowed Money into Capital
;
The Consolidation of Shares into Stock
:
alid
Part
I.
(relating
to
Cancellation and Surrender of Shares)
Part
11.
(relating to Additional Capital) and Part
111.
(relating
to Debenture Stock)
of
1863.
3.
In
this Act the several
words
and expressions to which
Interprets-
meanings are assigned by the Acts wholly or partially incorporated
herewith have the same respective meanings unless there be sonic-
thing in the subjoct or context repugnant to such construction
:
The expression
“
the Railway
”
or
“
the Railways
”
means
the
New
Railways
by
this Act authorised
:
The oxpressions
“
parish clerks
”
and
“
clerks of the several
parishes
”
in Sections seven eight
and
nine of the Railways Clauses
Consolidation Act
1845
sball with reference to the Company and as
regards those parishes
or
extra-parochial places in which by the
Standing Orders of either House of Parliament plans sections and
other documents are required to be deposited with the Clerk of the
Vestry of the Parish
or
with the Clerk of the District Board for the
district in which the parish
or
extra-parochial $ace
is
included
mean
in
the
first case the Vestry Clerks of those parishes and in the second
case the Clerks of those District Boards respectively
:
The expression
“
Superior Courts
”
or
“
Court of competent
Juriscliction
”
or
any other like expression in this Act
or
any Act
wholly or prtially incorporated herewith shall for the purposes
of
this
Act be read and have effect as
if
the debt or demand with
respect to which the expression is used were
a
simple contract debt
and not
a
debt
or
demand created by statute.
4.
Subject to the provisions
of
this Act the Company may make
Power
to
and maintain
in
the lines and according to the levels shown on the
E::::”
deposited Plans and Sections thereof the Railways hereiri-after
described with all proper stations sidings approaches works and
conveniencee connected therewith and
may
enter upon take and use
such of the lands delineated on those Plans and described in the
depcsited
Books
of Reference relating thereto
as
may be required
for that piirpose
:
The Railways herein-before referred to and authorised by this
Act are-
1.
The
Hkiyton and Ilkley Railway (eleven miles six furlongs
five chains and fifty links in length) situate wholly in the Weeh
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