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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....
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...
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....
Railway
Railway. A road owned by a private person or public company on which carriages run over iron rails; if the road is a public highway, that part of it on which the rails are laid is called a tramway. Every railway in this country (except a few private railways running through land owned by the owner of the railway) is constructed and managed (1) under a local and personal Act of Parliament; and (2) under the Companies Clauses, Lands Clauses, and Railways Clauses Consolidation Acts; and (3) under the general Acts relating to railways. The (English) Railway Act, 1921, provides for the reorganization of almost all the railways in England.Railway Companies as Carriers, The powers of railway companies as carriers are given by the 86th section of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and controlled by the (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Acts of 1854, 1873, and 1888. The (English) Act of 1845, s. 86, enacts that:-It shall be lawful for the company [authorized (see s. 3) by the speci...
Railway and Canal Commission
Railway and Canal Commission, a body established by the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888, to supersede the Railway Commissioners, who had been appointed under the (English) Regulation of Railways Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 48), with all the jurisdiction conferred by s. 3 of the (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854 (see infra), on the several courts and judges empowered to hear and determine complaints under that Act, and exercise their jurisdiction with enlarged powers, and consisting of two appointed (one to be of experience in railway business) and three ex-officio commissioners: one for England, one for Scotland, and one for Ireland, bring each of them a judge of a superior Court in England, Scotland, or Ireland respectively, and not required to attend out of the part of the United Kingdom for which he is appointed. The ex-officio Commissioner presides at the sittings, and his opinion upon any question of law prevails. As to appeal to 'superior Court of Appeal,' see ss....
Metro railway administration
Metro railway administration, in relation to-(i) a Government metro railway means the General Manger of that railway; or (ii) a non-Government metro railway means the person who is the owner or lessee of that metro railway or the person working that metro railway under an arrangement with the owner or lessee of that metro railway. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002 (60 of 2002), s. 2(1) (j)]...
Railway administration
Railway administration, the definition of 'railway administration' in s. 3(6) of the Railways Act, 1890, that it would mean the manager of the railway does not warrant the inference that a suit against the railway administration can be brought against the manager of that railway, State of Kerala v. General Manager, AIR 1976 SC 2538: (1976) 4 SCC 265: (1977) 1 SCR 419....
Metro railway
Metro railway, means rail-guided mass rapid transit system having dedicated right-of-way, with steel wheel or rubber-tyred wheel coaches, but excluding tramways, for carriage of passengers, and includes-(A) all land within the boundary marks indicating the limits of the land appurtenant to a metro railway, (B) all rails tracks, sidings, yards or branches worked over for the purposes of, or in connection with, a metro railway, (C) all stations, offices, ventilation shafts and ducts, warehouses, workshops, manufactories, fixed plants and machineries, sheds, depots and other works constructed for the purpose of, or in connection with, a metro railway. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002 (60 of 2002), s. 2(1)(i)]...
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