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Light Railway. Light railways, on which engines and carriages of eight tons weight or less may be brought upon the rails by any one pair o wheels, and the speed of trains is not to exceed twenty-five miles an hour, could and still can be authorized by the Board of Trade under s. 27 of the (English) Regulation of Railways Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 119).These powers have been little, if at all, exercised; but the (English) Light Railways Act, 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 48), established a Light Railway Commission for the purpose of authorizing light railways, with special aid from the Treasury in certain circumstances and cases. By the (English) Light Railways Act, 1912 (2 & 3 Geo. 5, c. 19), the powers of the Light Railway Commissioners were continued for five years and several amendments made in the Act of 1896. See also Part V. of the (English) Railways Act, 1921....
Conduit system
A system of electric traction esp for light railways in which the actuating current passes along a wire or rail laid in an underground conduit from which the current is ldquopicked uprdquo by a plow or other device fixed to the car or electric locomotive Hence Conduit railway...
Charging and levying
Charging and levying, mean demanding a price at the present time for services to be rendered, Upper Doab Sugar Mills Ltd. v. Shahdara Saharanpur Light Railway Co., (1963) 2 SCR 333: AIR 1963 SC 217 (220). [Railways Act (9 of 1890) s. 41(1)(b), (c)]...
In respect of
In respect of, the expression 'in respect of' means relating to, with reference to, Tolaram Relumal v. State of Bombay, AIR 1954 SC 496: (1955) 1 SCR 158 [Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, (57 of 1947), s. 98 (9)]The words 'in respect of' used in s. 3(14) of Railways Act 1890, may be taken to mean for the provision of and not for the user of, Shahdara (Delhi) Saharanpur Light Railway Company Ltd. v. Upper Doab Sugar Mills Ltd., AIR 1960 SC 695: (1960) 2 SCR 926.The words 'in respect of' admit of a wide connota-tion. In the context of s. 23 (I-B) of Foreign Ex-change Regulation Act, the expression means 'being connected with', Union of India v. Vijay Chand Jain, AIR 1977 SC 1302 (1304): (1977) 2 SCC 405: (1977) 2 SCR 952....
Commercial concern
Commercial concern, means a public limited com-pany or a cooperative society or a firm or any other person or body of persons engaged in trade or commerce, and includes-(i) a concern engaged in banking or insurance;(ii) a financial corporation;(iii) a concern engaged in shipping and navigation;(iv) a concern engaged in the business of brokers dealing in shares, stocks and securities and commodities;(v) a concern engaged in the business of advertising consultants;(vi) a light railway;(vii) a concern engaged in road transport service;(viii) a concern engaged in air transport service;(ix) a rubber, tea, coffee or cinchona plantation;(x) a concern engaged in the business of forwarding and clearing agents;(xi) any other concern which, in the opinion of the Central Government, is a commercial concern and is declared to be such by that Government by notification in the Official Gazette, but does not include an industrial concern. [Collection of Statistics Act, 1953 (32 of 1953), s. 2(b)]...
Development Commissioners
Development Commissioners, means the Develop-ment Commissioner appointed for one or more Special Economic Zones under sub-s. (1) and s. 11 [Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 (28 of 2005) s. 2(h)]Eight persons so named can be appointed by the king, who also nominates the chairman, under s. 3 of the (English) Development and Road Improve-ment Funds Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 47), as amended by the (English) Act of 1910 (10 Edw. 7 and 1 Geo. 5, c. 7); 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 72; 13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 21. The Commissioners are appointed for the purposes of recommendation to the Treasury in regard to advances which the Treasury is empowered to make out of a fund to be called the Development Fund created and provided for by the (English) Act of 1909, for any of the following purposes:--(a) Aiding and developing agricultural and rural industries by promoting scientific research, instruc-tion and experiments in the science, methods and practice of agriculture (including the provision of farm institutes), ...
Full compensation
Full compensation. See s. 16 of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 16), Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Railways,' and s. 17 of the Electric Lighting Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 56), ibid., tit. 'Electric Lighting,' by which 'full compensation' is granted for damage by exercise of the powers under the Acts. See COMPENSATION....
Lights of vehicles
Lights of vehicles. The (English) Road Transport Lighting Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 37), provides for the lighting of vehicles of every description (except railway locomotives, carriages and trucks, tramcars, trolley vehicles), but including machines and implements of any kind, whether drawn by animal or propelled mechanically. Briefly, the Act deals as follows:-S. 1. Obligatory lights to be carried by vehicles at night.S. 2. Restrictions on the number and nature of lamps to be carried.S. 3. Conditions regulating the use of lamps on vehicles.S. 4. Restrictions on movement of lamps.S. 5. Special provisions as to bicycles and tricycles.S. 6. Horse-drawn vehicles.S. 7. Vehicles carrying overhanging or projecting loads.S. 8. Special provisions as to vehicles towing and being towed.S. 9. Regulations as to reflectors.Penalties, repeals, provisions as to regulations, etc.As to bicycles, see the (English) Road Traffic Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 19. (English) Road Transport Light...
Locomotives. I
Locomotives. I. On Highways.--Locomotives on highways are of two classes: (a) Light Locomotives; (b) Heavy Locomotives.(a) Formerly the expression light locomotive and motor car meant the same apart from certain provisions as to registration. As to motor cars, see MOTOR CAR.Now light locomotives as defined by the (English) Road Traffic Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 43), are mechanically propelled vehicles which are not constructed themselves to carry any load (other than water, fuel, equipment, tools, etc.), and the weight of which unladen does not exceed 11-1/2 tons, but does exceed 7-1/4 tons. Road Traffic Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 43).A person under 21 shall not drive a light locomotive (s. 9), two persons must be employed in driving or attending, and if driving a trailer one or more in addition (s. 17). The period of continuous driving by any one person is limited by (s. 19) to 5-1/2 hours amounting to not more than 11 in the aggregate in 24 hours, and the driver is to have at ...
Rate
Rate, A contribution levied by some public body for a public purpose, as a poor rate, a highway rate, a sewers rate, upon, as a general rule, the occupiers of property within a parish or other area.Proportional or relative value; the proportion of which quantity or value is adjusted, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1268.The term 'rate' is also used to mean a charge by a water, gas, railway, or other public undertaking for services rendered e.g., (English) Railways Act, 1921, s. 20; Metropolitan Water Board Charges Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. xciv.).The poor rate was levied under the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601 (43 Eliz. s. 2), on the occupiers in each parish of 'lands, houses, tithes, coal mines, or saleable underwoods,' and the (English) Rating Act, 1874, extended the liability to rates to: (1) land used for a plantation or a wood, or for the growth of saleable underwood, and not subject to any right of common; (2) rights of fowling, shooting, taking, or killing game, or ra...
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