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RAILWAY AND CANAL TRAFFIC ACT 1854 - SECT 1

Interpretation.

1. In the construction of this Act. ....The word "traffic" shall include not
only passengers, and their luggage, and goods, animals, and other things
conveyed by any railway company or canal company, or railway and canal
company, but also carriages, waggons, trucks, boats, and vehicles of every
description adapted for running or passing on the railway or canal of any such
company:The word "railway" shall include every station of or belonging to such
railway used for the purposes of public traffic: andThe word "canal" shall
include any navigation whereon tolls are levied by authority of Parliament,
and also the wharves and landing places of and belonging to such canal or
navigation, and used for the purposes of public traffic:The expression
"railway company," "canal company," or "railway and canal company," shall
include any person being the owner or lessee of or any contractor working any
railway or canal or navigation constructed or carried on under the powers of
any Act of Parliament:

Definition spent

S.2 rep. by 1958 c.15 (NI) s.5 sch.2 Pt.I

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