Tramways Act 1870

[F1 35 Licences to use the tramway may in certain events be granted to third parties by the Board of Trade. E+W+S

If at any time after any tramway or part of any tramway shall have been for three years opened for public traffic in any district it shall be represented in writing to the Board of Trade by the local authority of such district or by twenty inhabitant ratepayers of such district, or by the road authority of any road in which such tramway or part of a tramway is laid, that the public are deprived of the full benefit of the tramway, the Board of Trade may (if they consider that prima facie, the case is one for inquiry) direct an inquiry by a referee under this Act into the truth of the representation, and if the referee report that the truth of the representation has been proved to his satisfaction, the Board may from time to time grant licences to any company or person to use such tramway in addition to the promoters or their lessees, for such traffic as is authorized by the special Act, with carriages to be approved by the Board, subject to the following provisions, conditions, and restrictions; that is to say,

(1) The licence shall be for any period not less than one year nor more than three years from the date of the licence, but shall be renewable by the Board, if they upon inquiry think fit:

(2) The licence shall be to use the whole of such tramway for the time being opened for public traffic, or such part or parts of such tramway as the Board, having reference to the cause for granting the licence, shall think right:

(3) The licence shall direct the number of carriages which the licensee or licensees shall run upon such tramway, and the mode in which and times at which such carriages shall be run:

(4) The licences shall specify the tolls to be paid to the promoters or to their lessees by the licensee or licensees for the use of the tramways:

(5) The licensee or licensees, and their officers and servants, shall permit one person duly authorized for that purpose by the promoters, or by their lessees, to ride free of charge in or upon each carriage of the licensee or licensees run upon the tramways for the whole or any part of the journey:

(6) The Board of Trade may at any time after the granting of any licence revoke, alter, or modify the same for good cause shown to them.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 26-40 repealed (except as incorporated in, or otherwise applied by, any Act of Parliament or Provisional Order) (1.1.1993) by Transport and Works Act 1992 (c. 42), ss. 65(1)(b), 68(1), Sch. 4 Pt.I; S.I. 1992/2784, art. 2(b), Sch. 2 Pt.I

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 35 excluded by London Passenger Transport Act 1933 (c. 14), s. 100