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RAILWAY REGULATION ACT 1851

RAILWAY REGULATION ACT 1851 - LONG TITLE

An Act to repeal the Act for constituting Commissioners of
Railways.{1}
[7th August 1851]
Preamble, which recites 1846 c.105 (Railway Commissioners), rep. by
SLR 1892

RAILWAY REGULATION ACT 1851 - SECT 1
Recited Act repealed, and powers, &c. of Commissioners of Railways
under subsequent Acts transferred to Board of Trade.

1. ... All powers, rights, authorities, and duties vested in or
exercised or performed by the Commissioners of Railways under any
Act passed since the passing of the said recited Act, or which may
be passed during the present session of Parliament, shall be
transferred to and vested in and performed by the Lords of the
Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council for Trade and Foreign
Plantations, as if they had been named in such Acts instead of the
said commissioners; ....

S.2 rep. by SLR 1950

RAILWAY REGULATION ACT 1851 - SECT 3
Appointments, orders, &c. of the Board of Trade, how to be
signified, &c.

3. Where by any Act relating to railways or to any railway the
Commissioners of Railways or the Lords of the said committee are
empowered or required to make or issue any appointment, authority,
determination, order, requisition, regulation, certificate, or notice,
or to do any other act, the Lords of the said committee may ...
signify such appointment, authority, determination, order, requisition,
regulation, certificate, notice, or other act by a written or
printed document, signed by one of the joint secretaries of the
Lords of the said committee, or by some assistant secretary, or
other officer appointed by them to sign documents relating to
railways; and every appointment, authority, determination, order,
requisition, regulation, certificate, notice, or other act, signified
by a written or printed document purporting to be so signed or
done by the Lords of the said committee; and every such document
shall be received in evidence in all courts and before all justices
and others, without proof of the authority or signature of such
secretary or other officer, or other proof whatsoever, until it be
shown that such document was not signed by the authority of the
Lords of the said committee.




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