Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845

XXVI Such Commissioners to investigate and report on the Works necessary for Drainage.

The said Commissioners shall and they are hereby required, without any unnecessary Delay, to investigate, by such Means as to them shall seem fit, the Adequacy of all such Works for such Purposes as aforesaid, and to decide and certify, by a Writing under their Hands, or the Hands of any Two of them, the Number, Situation, and least possible Dimensions as to Breadth, Depth, and Height of the several Openings of such Bridges, Culverts, Tunnels, or other Works connected with such Portion of the Railway as aforesaid, which shall be necessary for the Passage of Water, or for Navigation under or across such Railway; and it shall not be lawful for the Company to proceed with the Execution of any of the Works connected with any Portion of the Railway without having first obtained such a Certificate as aforesaid respecting such Portion of the Railway, under the Hands of the said Commissioners or any Two of them, as aforesaid; nor shall the Company be at liberty to deviate from such Certificate in respect to such Works, nor to execute the same otherwise than in conformity therewith, without the previous Approbation in Writing of the said Commissioners.