South Eastern Railway Act 1899
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1899 c. lxxviii |
[62 & 63
VICT.]
South Eastern Bailway Act, 1899. [Ch. Ixxviii.]
CHAPTER Ixxviii.
An Act for conferring further powers on the South
A.D.
1899.
Eastern Railway Company and for other purrjoses.
[13th July 1899.]
HEEEAS it is expedient that the South Eastern Railway
Company (in this Act called " the Company") should be
empowered to make and maintain the railways and railway
widenings and exercise the other powers in this Act severally
authorised and to acquire for the purposes of the works by this
Act authorised and for extending their station siding and other
accommodation and for other purposes connected with their
undertaking the lands in this Act al30 mentioned :
And ;whereas it is expedient to extend or further extend as
herein-after provided the respective times limited by the Acts
herein-after specified for the purchase- of certain lands and the
completion of certain works :
And whereas by the Epsom Downs Extension Railway Act 1892
(herein-after called " the Epsom Act of 1892 ") the Epsom Downs
Extension Railway Company (herein-after called " the Epsom
Company") were incorporated with a share capital of seventy-
five thousand pounds and power to borrow on mortgage the sum
of twenty-four thousand five hundred pounds and were empowered
to make a railway in the county of Surrey commencing in the
parish of Ewell and terminating in the parish of Banstead :
And whereas by the Epsom Downs Extension Railway Act 1897
(herein-after called " the Epsom Act of 1897 ") the Epsom Company
were empowered to make the railway therein described and to
abandon a portion of their authorised railway :
And whereas by the Chipstead Valley Railway Act 1893 (herein-
after called " the Chipstead Act of 1893") the Chipstead Valley
Railway Company (herein-after' called " the Chipstead Company ")
were incorporated with a share capital of one hundred and seventy-
five thousand pounds and power to borrow on mortgage the sum
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[Ch. Ixxviii.] South Eastern Railway Act, 1899. [62 & 63
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1899. of fifty-eight thousand pounds and were empowered to make certain
" railways in the county of Surrey from Walton-on-the-Hill to
Purley:
And whereas it is expedient that the undertakings of the
Chipstead Company and the Epsom Company should be respec-
tively vested in the Company and that the Chipstead Company
and the Epsom Company should be dissolved as herein-after
provided :
And whereas it is expedient to provide as herein-after mentioned
for the release of the deposit fund in respect of the Chipstead Act
of 1893 and so much of the deposit fund as now remains in Court
in respect of the Epsom Act of 1892 and the Epsom Act of 1897
respectively :
And whereas it is expedient that the Company should be authorised
to apply their funds for the purposes of this Act :
And whereas it is expedient that the Crowhurst Sidley and
Bexhill Railway Company (in this Act called " the Crowhurst
Company ") should be authorised to raise additional capital for the
purposes of their undertaking :
And whereas it is expedient that other provisions such as are in
this Act contained be made :
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels
of the railways and railway widenings by this Act authorised to
be constructed and plans showing the lands by this Act authorised
to be acquired and appropriated and also books of reference
containing the names of the owners and lessees or reputed owners
and lessees and of the occupiers of the lands required or which
may be taken for the purposes or under the powers of this Act
were duly deposited with the clerks of the peace for the several
counties within which the said works will be constructed and those
lands are situate which plans sections and books of reference are
in this Act respectively referred to as the deposited plans sections
and books of reference:
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected 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 South Eastern Railway Act
1899.
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[62 & 63
VICT.]
South Eastern Baihvay Act, 1899. [Oh. lxxviii.]
2.
The following Acts and parts of Acts are (except where A.B. 1899.
expressly varied by this Act) incorporated with and form part of incoZ^a.
this Act (that is to say):— tion of
The Lands Clauses Acts : I™*"11
The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 :
Part I. (relating to the construction of a railway) Part II.
(relating to extension of time) and Part V. (relating to
amalgamation) of the Railways Clauses Act 1863 :
The provisions of the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845
with respect to the following matters (namely):—
The distribution of the capital of the Company into shares ;
The transfer or transmission of shares ;
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
shareholders;
The borrowing of money ;
The conversion of the borrowed money into capital;
The consolidation of shares into stock ;
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
(as amended by subsequent Acts) relating respectively to
cancellation and surrender of shares to additional capital and
to debenture stock.
3.
In this Act the several words and expressions to which Interpveta-
meanings are assigned by the Acts wholly or partially incorporated tl0n*
herewith have the same respective meanings unless there be
something in the subject or contest repugnant to such construction :
The expressions "parish clerks" and "clerks of the several
parishes " in sections 7 8 and 9 of the Railways Clauses Con-
solidation Act 1845 shall as regards the administrative county
of London mean the clerks of the sanitary authorities appointed
by section 99 of the Public Health (London) Act 1891 for the
execution of that Act.
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 make ra,)"
deposited plan3 and sections the railways jind railway widenings
herein-after described with all proper stations sidings approaches
works and conveniences connected therewith respectively and may
enter upon take and use such or the lands delineated on the
deposited plans and described in the deposited books of reference
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