Transport Act 1962

84 Minor amendments relating to railways. E+W+S

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(2) Section five of the Regulation of Railways Act, 1889 (which imposes penalties for offences in connection with railway fares and tickets), shall apply as respects any offence committed after the coming into force of this section as if in subsection (1) for the words “forty shillings” there were substituted the words “ten pounds”, and as if in subsection (3) for the words “forty shillings” there were substituted the words “twenty-five pounds”, for the words “twenty pounds” there were substituted the words “twenty-five pounds” and for the words “one month” there were substituted the words “three months”.

(3) Subsection (1) and subsections (3) to (12) of section sixty-seven of this Act shall apply in relation to the person carrying on any independent railway undertaking as defined in the last foregoing section, and in relation to the railways comprised in the undertaking, as they apply in relation to the Railways Board and their railways, and as from the vesting date any bylaws under sections one hundred and eight and one hundred and nine of the M1 Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845, or sections one hundred and one and one hundred and two of the M2 Railways Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845, which immediately before the vesting date apply to any such undertaking shall have effect as if made under the said section sixty-seven.

(4) In section one hundred and forty-four of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and section one hundred and thirty-six of the Railways Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845 (which relate to the defacement of notice boards), for the words from “as required” to “or penalty” there shall be substituted the words “for the purpose of publishing any byelaw of the company or any penalty imposed by this or the special Act.”

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Amendments (Textual)

F1 S. 84(1) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. VI

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of ss. 13(4), 20(4), 36(4), 37, 61(2), 68(1), 84(2)(4), the reference in Sch. 2 to London Passenger Transport Act 1933 and Sch. 11 Pt. II para 8, (which para. is now spent), is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Marginal Citations

M1 1845 c. 20.

M2 1845 c. 33.