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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Tramways Act, 1886 Section 40

SAVING OF POWER OVER ROADS TRAVERSED BY TRAMWAYS

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Tramways Act, 1886 Section 40 is part of Tramways Act, 1886 - SAVING OF POWER OVER ROADS TRAVERSED BY TRAMWAYS. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1) Nothing in this Act, or in an order or any rule made under this Act, shall take away or abridge any power which a road authority, local authority or other person has by law to break up, widen, alter, divert or improve a road, railroad or tramway along or across which a tramway is laid.

(2) The road-authority, local authority or other person executing any work referred to in sub-section (1) shall not be liable to pay to a promoter, lessee or licensee any compensation for injury done to a tramway by the execution of the work or for loss of traffic occasioned by the reasonable use of any power lawfully exercised for the execution thereof.

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What does Tramways Act, 1886 Section 40 provide?

Section Section 40 of the Tramways Act, 1886 (SAVING OF POWER OVER ROADS TRAVERSED BY TRAMWAYS) is reproduced on this page as part of the Tramways Act, 1886. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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