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An Act to amend the Railway Fires Act, 1905.
[31st July 1923]
Be it enactedby the King'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:-
Subsection (3) of section one of the Railway Fires Act, 1905 (hereinafter called the principal Act), shall be amended by the substitution of the words
"two hundred pounds"for the words " one hundred pounds " in the said subsection.
The principal Act shall not apply in the case of any action for damage by fire brought against any railway company unless (1) notice in writing of the fire having occurred and of intention to claim in respect thereof shall have been sent to the said railway company within seven days of the occurrence of the damage; and (2) particulars in writing of the damage showing the amount of the claim in money not exceeding the said sum of two hundred pounds shall have been sent to the said railway company within twenty-one days of the occurrence of the damage.
Section three of the principal Act is hereby repealed.
This Act shall not apply in the case of any fire which has occurred before the passing of this Act.
This Act may be cited as the Railway Fires Act (1905) Amendment Act, 1923.
