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Railway Companies Act 1875

As Enacted Cited authorities 3 Cited in Amendments 7 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1875 c. 31
Year1875


Railway Companies Act, 1875

(38 & 39 Vict.) CHAPTER 31.

An Act to make perpetual Section Four of the Railway Companies Act, 1867, and Section Four of the Railway Companies (Scotland) Act, 1867.

[29th June 1875]

W HEREAS by section four of the Railway Companies Act. 1867, restrictions were placed on the liability of the rolling stock and plant of railway companies in England and Ireland to be taken in execution at law or in equity at any time after the passing of that Act and before the first day of September one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight:

And whereas by section four of the Railway Companies Scotland) Act, 1867, restrictions were placed on the liability of rolling stock and plant of railway companies in Scotland to be attached by diligence at any time after the passing of that Act and before the first day of September one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight:

And whereas by the Railway Companies Act, 1868, it was enacted that the said sections should be read and have effect as if the first day of September one thousand eight hundred and seventy were therein mentioned instead of the first day of September one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight:

And whereas the said sections have since been continued until the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and it is expedient that the same should be made perpetual:

Be it therefore 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:

S-1 & 31 Vict. c. 127. s. 4. and c. 126. s. 4. made perpetual.

1 & 31 Vict. c. 127. s. 4. and c. 126. s. 4. made perpetual.

1. The Railway Companies Act, 1868, and also the words ‘and before the first day of September one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight’ in section four of the Railway Companies Act, 1867, and in section four of the...

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