Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as The Keith and Dufftown Light Railway Order 1999 and shall come into force on 21st July 1999.
Interpretation
2. In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:–
“the Act” means the Light Railways Act 1896;
“the Association” means the Keith & Dufftown Railway Association (Company Registration Number 157099), incorporated under the Companies Act 1985(1) and having its registered office at Dufftown Station, Dufftown, Banffshire;
“the Board” means the British Railways Board;
“the Company” means the Keith & Dufftown Railway Company Limited (Company Registration Number 150013), incorporated under the Companies Act 1985 and having its registered office at Dufftown Station, Dufftown, Banffshire;
“the deposited plan” means the plan deposited in respect of the application for this Order with the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and at the registered office of the Company, and marked as the plan;
“the enabling Acts” means the Keith and Dufftown Railway (Deviation) Act 1860(2) and so far as applicable the Keith and Dufftown Railway Act 1857(3) and the Strathspey Railway Act 1861(4);
“the railway” means that part of the railways of the Board described in and authorised by the enabling Acts which is described in Schedule 1 hereto including all lands and works relating thereto;
“the transfer date” means the day on which the railway or any part thereof is vested in the Association by virtue of an agreement made under article 3(1) of this Order.
Transfer of the railway to the Association
3.—(1) The Board and the Association may enter into and carry into effect agreements providing for the transfer to and the vesting in the Association of the railway or any part thereof on such terms and conditions as may be agreed between the Board and the Association.
(2) Except as may be otherwise provided in this Order, as from the transfer date the Association shall to the exclusion of the Board be entitled to the benefit of and to exercise all rights, powers and privileges and be subject to all obligations of the Board whether statutory or otherwise relating to the railway or such part as is transferred as aforesaid (in so far as the same are still subsisting and capable of taking effect) to the intent that the Board shall be released from all such obligations.
(3) As from the transfer date the Association may work the railway or such part thereof as a light railway under the Act.
Application of enactments
4.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order, such of the enactments set out in the Second Schedule to the Act as are still in force except section 5 (Penalty for avoiding payment of fare) of the Regulation of Railways Act 1889(5) shall cease to apply to the railway.
(2) Sections 116, 117 and 118 of the Transport Act 1968 shall apply to the railway as if references therein to the Board were references to the Association.
Leasing or sale of the railway to the Company
5.—(1) On or after the transfer date, the Association may transfer to and vest in the Company, whether by lease or sale, the railway or any interest therein or part thereof to the extent that the same shall have been transferred to and vested in the Association in accordance with Article 3 of this Order, together with any rights, interests, powers, privileges and obligations so vested, on such terms and conditions as may be agreed between the Association and the Company.
(2) During the continuance of any such lease or after the completion of any such sale the Company shall to the exclusion of the Association be entitled to the benefit of and to exercise all the rights, powers and privileges and be subject to all the obligations of the Association whether statutory or otherwise for the time being in force in respect of the railway or such a part thereof as are comprised in the lease or sale.
Gauge and motive power
6.—(1) The railway shall be operated on a gauge of 1.435 metres (four feet eight and one half inches) and the motive power shall be diesel, steam or internal combustion or such other motive power as the Secretary of State may approve in writing.
(2) Nothing in this Order shall authorise the Association to use electrical power as motive power on the railway unless such power is obtained from storage batteries or from a source of generation entirely contained in and carried along with the engines and carriages.
(3) If electrical power is used as motive power on the railway such electrical power shall not be used in such a manner as to cause or be likely to cause any interference with any telecommunications apparatus as defined in Schedule 2 to the Telecommunications Act 1984(6) or with telecommunication by means of any such apparatus.
As to footpath and accommodation level crossings
7. The Company shall provide, maintain and operate at or near the crossings referred to in Schedule 2 such barriers or other protective equipment as the Health and Safety Executive may require in writing.
Restriction and condition as to working of the railway
8. No part of the railway shall be used for the conveyance of passengers without the prior written permission of the Health and Safety Executive.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
A S D Whybrow
Head of Charging and Local Transport Division,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
20th July 1999