Kingdom for the time being, or the Commissioners for the time being The term "police force" means the police force of the metropolitan police The term "police authority" means the Secretary of State, quarter sessions, watch committee, police committee, police commissioners, or other authority having the management of a police force: Anything which the Board of Trade is by this Act empowered or required to do may be done by writing under the hand of the President or Secretary or one of the Assistant Secretaries of the Board. IX. Commencement of Act.-The Act shall come into operation on the first day of October one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, which day is in this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act. X. Repeal. Without prejudice to anything done or suffered, or any right acquired or liability incurred before the commencement of this Act, the Acts specified in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed, as from the commencement of this Act, to the extent specified in the third column of the schedule, except so far as such Acts apply to Ireland, and except as respecting the conveyance of forces by companies who lose the benefit of this Act. XI. Extent of Act.-This Act shall not extend to Ireland. SCHEDULE. 1883. 47 & 48 VICT. Cap. 62. THE REVENUE ACT, 1884.-47 & 48 VICT. CAP. 62. AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING ΤΟ THE CUSTOMS AND INLAND XII. Licences for the sale of tobacco in railway carriages.-(1) It shall be lawful for any railway company (including in such term any person or persons who is or are proprietor or proprietors of a railway or of carriages used for the conveyance of passengers upon a railway) to make application to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for the grant of a licence or licences for the dealing in and sale of tobacco and snuff by any means, personal, mechanical, or otherwise, in any railway carriage of which such company are the proprietors. (2) Such application shall be made upon a form to be provided by the commissioners and containing such particulars as they may prescribe. (3) The licence shall be granted by the commissioners upon payment in respect of each carriage of the excise duty of five shillings and threepence, and shall expire on the fifth day of July after the date thereof. (4) All the enactments relating to the dealing in and sale of tobacco and snuff and excise licences shall be applicable to such carriages and licences, and every carriage in respect of which a licence is granted shall be deemed to be "premises" of a dealer in and seller of tobacco within the meaning of the enactments relating to the dealing in and sale of tobacco or snuff. (5) If any railway company shall deal in or sell tobacco or snuff, or suffer tobacco or snuff to be dealt in or sold in any railway carriage without having in force a licence authorising the company so to do, such company shall incur a fine of fifty pounds, and if in any proceedings for the recovery of such fine any question shall arise as to the proprietorship of any railway carriage the proof of proprietorship shall lie upon the defendant. 47 & 48 VICT. Cap. 63. THE TRUSTS (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT ACT, 1884.-47 & 48 AN ACT TO AMEND THE TRUSTS (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1867.—[14th August 1884.] Preamble. Whereas by an Act passed in the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth years of the reign of her present Majesty [24 & 25 Vict. cap. 84], intituled "An Act to amend the law in Scotland relative to the resignation, powers, and liabilities of gratuitous trustees," and by an Act passed in the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh years of the reign of her present Majesty [26 & 27 Vict. cap. 115], intituled "An Act to explain the Act for the amendment of the law relative to gratuitous trustees in Scotland," and by The Trusts (Scotland) Act, 1867 [30 & 31 Vict. cap. 97], certain powers are conferred on gratuitous trustees in Scotland: And it is expedient to amend the said Acts, and to extend the powers thereby conferred: Be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: I. Short title. This Act may be cited as "The Trusts (Scotland) Amendment Act, 1884," and the said Acts and this Act may be cited as "The Trusts (Scotland) Acts, 1861 to 1884," and shall be read and construed together. II. Definition of trust.-In the construction of the said recited Acts and of this Act, "Trust" shall mean and include any trust constituted by any deed or "Trustee" shall include tutor, curator, and judicial factor. III. Powers of investment. Repeal. -Trustees under any trust may, unless specially prohibited by the constitution or terms of the trust, invest the trust funds (a) In the purchase of— (3) Any securities the interest of which is or shall be guaranteed by (4) Debenture stock of railway companies in Great Britain incorporated (5) Preference, guaranteed, lien, annuity, or rent-charge stock, the (b) In loans 9. On the security of any of the stocks, funds, or other property 11. On debentures or mortgages of railway companies in Great Britain Provided that the trustees shall not be held to be subject as defendants or respondents to the jurisdiction of any of her Majesty's Courts of Law or Equity in England or Ireland, either as trustees or personally, in any suit for administration of the trust by reason of their having invested or lent trust funds as aforesaid; and section five of The Trusts (Scotland) Act, 1867, is hereby repealed. 1884. 51 & 52 VICT. Cap. 25. THE RAILWAY AND CANAL TRAFFIC ACT, 1888.-51 & 52 Section. ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS. I. Short title and construction. PART I.-COURT AND PROCEDURE OF RAILWAY AND CANAL COMMISSIONERS. ESTABLISHMENT OF RAILWAY AND CANAL COMMISSION. II. Establishment of new Railway and Canal Commission. III. Appointment and tenure of office of appointed commissioners. V. Sittings of commissioners. VI. Appointment of additional judge. VII. Provision for complaints by public authority in certain cases. JURISDICTION. VIII. Jurisdiction of railway commissioners transferred to the Commission. IX. Jurisdiction of commissioners under special Acts. X. Jurisdiction over tolls and rates. XI. Jurisdiction to order traffic facilities, notwithstanding agreements. XIII. No damages where rates published under certain conditions. XIV. Orders on two or more companies. XV. Amendment of 36 & 37 Vict. c. 48, sec. 8, as to references to arbitration under special Act. XVI. Power to apportion expenses between railway company and applicants for works. APPEALS. XVII. Appeals on certain questions to superior court of appeal. SUPPLEMENTAL. XVIII. General powers and enforcement of orders. XIX. Costs. XX. Power to make rules. XXI. Appointment of officers, clerks, etc. XXII. Salaries, expenses, etc. XXIII. Company to which this part of this Act applies. PART II.-TRAFFIC. XXIV. Revised classification of traffic and schedule of rates. XXV. Provisions as to through traffic. XXVI. Powers of commissioners as to through rates. XXVII. Undue preference in case of unequal tolls, rates, and charges, and unequal services performed. XXVIII. Extension of enactments as to undue preference to goods carried by sea. 1888. XXIX. Group rates to be chargeable by railway companies. XXXI. Complaints to Board of Trade of unreasonable charges by railway XXXII. Annual returns by railway companies to contain such statistics as the Board of Trade shall require. XXXIII. Classification table to be open for inspection. Copies to be sold. XXXIV. Place of publication of rates in respect of traffic at places other than stations. XXXV. Power to make rules for purposes of this part of this Act. PART III.-CANALS. XXXVI. Part II. to extend to canal companies. XXXVII. Application of 36 & 37 Vict. c. 48, to canals. XXXVIII. Powers of commissioners over canal tolls, rates, and charges where a railway company or its officers own or control the traffic of a canal. XXXIX. Returns by canal companies. XL. Bye-laws of canal companies. XLI. Inspection of canals. XLII. Misapplication of a railway company's funds for acquisition of unauthorised interest in canal. XLIII. Canal companies may agree for through tolls, etc. XLIV. Canal companies may establish clearing system. XLV. Abandonment of canal. XLVI. Definition of "canal company." PART IV.-MISCELLANEOUS. XLVII. Perpetuation of 36 & 37 Vict. c. 48. XLIX. Recovery and application of penalties. L. Parties may appear in person or by counsel, etc. LI. Parliamentary agents entitled to practise before commissioners. LII. Saving of powers conferred on commissioners and Board of Trade. LIV. Expenses of local authorities. LV. Definitions. LVI. Commencement of Act. LVII. Pending business. LVIII. Transfer of pending business from superior courts. LIX. Repeal and savings. SCHEDULE. AN ACT FOR THE BETTER REGULATION OF RAILWAY AND CANAL TRAFFIC, and FOR OTHER PURPOSES.-[10th August 1888.] Be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:: |