Railway Regulation Act 1840

XI Board of Trade may direct Prosecutions to enforce Provisions of Railway Acts. Notice to be given to the Company.

And be it enacted, That whenever it shall appear to the Lords of the said Committee that any of the Provisions of the several Acts of Parliament regulating any of the said Companies, or the Provisions of this Act, have not been complied with on the Part of any of the said Companies, or any of their Officers, and that it would be for the. public Advantage that the due Performance of the same should be enforced, the Lords of the said Committee shall certify the same to Her Majesty's Attorney General for England or Ireland, or to the Lord Advocate for Scotland, as the Case may require ; and thereupon the said Attorney General or Lord Advocate shall, by Information, or by Action, Bill, Plaint, Suit at Law or in Equity, or other legal Proceeding, as the Case may require, proceed to recover such Penalties and Forfeitures, or otherwise to enforce the due Performance of the said Provisions, by such Means as any Person aggrieved by such Noncompliance, or otherwise authorized to sue for such Penalties, might employ under the Provisions of the said Acts: Provided always, that no such Certificate as aforesaid shall be given by the Lords of the said Committee until Twenty-one Days after they shall have given Notice of their Intention to give the same to the Company against or in relation to whom they shall intend to give the same.