South Eastern Railway (Various Powers) Act 1885
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1885 c. cxxxvii |
| Year | 1885 |
[48 & 49 VICT.] South-eastern Railway (Various [Ch. CXXXViL]
Poimrs) Act, 1885.
CHAPTER cxxxvii.
An Act for authorising the South-eastern Railway Company
A.D.
1885.
to execute various works and conferring on them further
powers in respect of their own undertaking and of the
undertakings of other companies and for other purposes.
[31st July 1885.]
W
HEREAS it is expedient that the South-eastern Railway
Company (in this Act called "the Company") be authorised
to make and maintain the railways and to widen certain portions of
their existing railways and to execute the other works and to exercise
the other powers in this Act severally mentioned and to acquire and
hold for the purposes of the works by this Act mentioned and for
the general purposes of their undertaking the lands in this Act also
mentioned.
And whereas it is expedient that the harbour at Folkestone be
improved and extended as in this Act provided.
And whereas it is expedient that the Company should be em-
powered to guarantee interest or dividend on the capital of the
Bexley Heath Railway Company and of the Lydd Railway Company
respectively and to take and hold shares or stock in the capitals of
those companies respectively.
And whereas it is expedient that provisions should be made such
as are in this Act contained with respect to the making of agree-
ments such as are in this Act mentioned by the Company and the
Metropolitan Board of "Works vestries district boards and urban
sanitary authorities and other authorities corporations associations
persons or bodies in this Act mentioned.
And whereas it is expedient that some of the provisions of Acts
relating to the Company should be amended as herein-after provided,
And whereas it is expedient to extend or further extend the times
limited by the Acts herein-after specified for the compulsory purchase
of certain lands and for the completion of certain works as herein
after provided.
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[Ch*
CXXXViL] South-eastern Railway (Various [48 & 49 VICT.]
Powers) Act, 1885.
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1885. And whereas it is expedient that the Company be authorised to
raise further moneys for the purposes of this Act and of their under-
taking.
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 railway widenings piers and other works by this Act
authorised and the lands in or through which the same are intended
to be made and plans of the lands which the Company are by this
Act empowered to acquire and books of reference to those respective
plans containing the names of the owners and lessees or reputed
owners and lessees and of the occupiers of the said lands have been
deposited with the respective clerks of the peace for the counties of
Kent Surrey and Middlesex and are herein-after 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 (Various
Powers) Act 1885.
Incorpora- 2. The under-mentioned enactments are except where expressly
tion of varied by this Act incorporated with and form part of this Act:
EraJ The LandB Clauses Consolidation Acts 1845 1860 and 1869 as
amended by the Lands Clauses (Umpire) Act 1883.
The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845.
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 share-
holders.
The borrowing of money by the Company on mortgage.
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.
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Powers) Act, 1885.
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The making of dividends.
The giving of notices and the provisions to be made for affording
access to the special Act by all parties interested.
Part I. (relating to cancellation and surrender of shares) Part
II.
(relating to additional capital) and Part III. (relating to
debenture stock) of the Companies Clauses Act 1863.
Part I. (relating to the construction of a railway) and Part II.
(relating to the extension of time) of the Eailways Clauses Act
1863 and the Harbours Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847.
3.
In this Act the several words and expressions to which mean- Interpreta-
ings are assigned by the Acts wholly or partially incorporated tlonofterme
with this Act have the same respective meanings unless there is
something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction
and for the purposes of this Act the expression " the Metropolitan
Board " means the Metropolitan Board of Works and for the pur-
poses of this Act the expression " superior courts" or " court of
competent jurisdiction " or any other like expression in this Act or
any Act wholly or partially incorporated with this Act shall 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.
The expressions " parish clerks " and " clerks of the several Interpreta-
parishes " in sections 7 8 and 9 of the Railways Clauses Consolida- *10n ?frterm
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tion Act 1845 shall with reference to the Company and as regards clerks" &c.
those parishes or extra parochial places in which by the standing
orders of either House of Parliament plans sections and other docu-
ments 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 place 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.
5.
Subject to the provisions of this Act the Company may make Power to
and maintain m the lines and according; to the levels shown
ways,
widen
deposited plans and sections the railways and the widenings of (in ings/and
which expression in this Act are included the alteration and improve- works
ment of and the laying down of additional lines of rails upon) the
railways and the other works herein-after severally described with all
proper stations sidings works and conveniences connected therewith
and may enter upon take and use such of the lands delineated on the
deposited plans and described in the deposited book of reference as
may be required for those purposes. The railways and widenings
authorised by this section are
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