LegalizeRAILWAYS ACT, 1924
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12 amending acts · 2014-01-27, Local Government Reform Act 2014
Nothing in this Act shall affect the right of the company to make any charges which it is authorised by any statute to make in respect of any accommodation or services provided or rendered by the company at or in connection with docks or shipping places.
Provisions as to perishables.
The following provisions and regulations shall be applicable to the conveyance of perishable merchandise by passenger train:—
- (a) The company shall afford reasonable facilities for the expeditious conveyance of the articles classified as perishables, either by passenger train or other similar service:
- (b) Such facilities shall be subject to the reasonable regulations of the company for the convenient and punctual working of its passenger train service, and shall not include any obligation to convey perishables by any particular train:
- (c) The company shall not be under obligation to convey by passenger train, or other similar service, any merchandise other than perishables:
- (d) Any question as to the facilities afforded by the company under these provisions and regulations shall be determined by the railway tribunal.
Charges for services not otherwise provided for.
10.—(1) The company may charge a reasonable sum for the services hereunder mentioned, or any of them when rendered to a trader at his request or for his convenience:—
- (i) Services rendered by the company at or in connection with sidings not belonging to the company in respect of which no rate or charge is otherwise provided;
- (ii) The collection or delivery outside a terminal station, otherwise than is provided for by section 46 of this Act, of merchandise which is to be, or has been, carried by railway;
- (iii) Weighing merchandise;
- (iv) The detention of trucks or the use or occupation of any accommodation before or after carriage beyond such period as shall be reasonably necessary for enabling the company to deal with merchandise as carriers thereof, or the consignor or consignee to give or take delivery thereof; or, in cases in which the merchandise is consigned to an address other than the terminal station, beyond a reasonable period from the time when notice has been delivered at such address that the merchandise has arrived at the terminal station for delivery and services rendered in connection with such use and occupation;
- (v) Loading or unloading, covering or uncovering, merchandise in respect of which no charge is provided;
- (vi) The use of coal drops;
- (vii) The provision by the company of accommodation at a waterside wharf and special services rendered thereat by the company in respect of loading and unloading merchandise into or out of vessels or barges where no special charge is prescribed by any statute, provided that the charge under this sub-paragraph shall, for the purpose of any disintegration of rate, be deemed to be a dock charge;
- (viii) Any accommodation or services provided or rendered by the company within the scope of its undertaking, and in respect of which no provisions are made by this Schedule.
- (2) Any difference arising under this paragraph shall be determined by the railway tribunal at the instance of either party, provided that where before any service is rendered, a trader has given notice in writing to the company that he does not require it, the service shall not be deemed to be rendered at the trader's request or for his convenience.
- (3) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, any charge here under made by the company in accordance with an order of the railway tribunal in force for the time being may be recovered by action in a court of law.
The standard rate for conveyance is the rate which the company may charge for the conveyance of merchandise by merchandise train and, subject to the exceptions and provisions specified in this Schedule, includes the provision of locomotive power and trucks by the company and every other expense incidental to such conveyance not otherwise herein provided for.
The standard station terminal is the charge which the company may make to a trader for the use of the accommodation (exclusive of coal drops) provided and for the duties undertaken by the company, for which no provision is made in this Schedule at the terminal station for or in dealing with merchandise as carriers thereof before or after conveyance.
The standard service terminals are the charges which the company may make to a trader for the following services when rendered to or for a trader, that is to say, loading, unloading, covering, and uncovering merchandise; which charges shall, in respect of each service, be deemed to include all charges for the provision by the company of labour, machinery, plant, stores and sheets.
Where a consignment by merchandise train is over three hundred weight, a fraction of a quarter of a hundred weight may be charged for as a quarter of a hundredweight.
For a fraction of a mile the company may charge according to the number of quarters of a mile in that fraction, and a fraction of a quarter of a mile may be charged for as a quarter of a mile.
Articles sent in large aggregate quantities, although made up of separate parcels such as bags of sugar, coffee, and the like, shall not be deemed to be small parcels.
For any quantity of merchandise less than a truck load which the company either receive or deliver in one truck on or at a siding not belonging to the company, or which from the circumstances in which the merchandise is tendered or the nature of the merchandise the company is obliged or required to carry in one truck, the company may charge as for a reasonable minimum load having regard to the nature of the merchandise.
The term “terminal station” means a station or place upon the railway at which a consignment of merchandise is loaded or unloaded before or after conveyance on the railway, but does not include any station or junction at which the merchandise in respect of which any terminal is charged has been exchanged with, handed over to, or received from any railway company, or a junction between the railway and a siding let by or not belonging to the company, or in respect of merchandise passing to or from such siding, any station with which such siding may be connected, or any dock or shipping place the charges for the use of which are regulated by statute.
The term “siding” includes branch railways not belonging to a railway company.
In this Schedule the expression “the company” means the amalgamated company, and the word “trader” includes any person sending or receiving or desiring to send or receive merchandise by railway.
Seventh Schedule Enactments Amended.
| Session and Chapter | Short Title | Nature of Amendment |
| 11 Geo. 4 and 1 Will. 4, c. 68. | The Carriers Act, 1830 | In section one, the words “silks in a manufactured or unmanufactured state and whether wrought up or not wrought up with other materials” shall be repealed, and the word “twenty-five” shall be substituted for “ten.” In section two the word “twenty-five” shall be substituted for the word “ten.” The following new section shall be added after section 10:— “11. In this Act the expression ‘common carrier by land’ shall include a common carrier by land who is also a carrier by water, and as regards every such common carrier this Act shall apply to carriage by water in the same manner as it applies to carriage by land.” |
| 8 & 9 Vict. c. 20 | The Railways Clauses Act, 1845, as incorporated in any Act, whether passed before or after the passing of this Act. | In section three after the words “The word ‘toll’ shall include any rate or charge or other payment payable under the special Act” there shall be inserted the words “or fixed by the railway tribunal under the provisions of the Railways Act, 1924.” In section ninety-eight for the words “number or quantity of goods conveyed by any such carriage” there shall be substituted the words full name and address of the consignee and such particulars of the nature, weight (inclusive of packing), and number of parcels or articles of merchandise handed to the company for conveyance as may be necessary to enable the company to calculate the charges therefor.” The following subsection shall be added at the end of section ninety-eight:— “(2) The company shall be entitled to refuse to convey any merchandise delivered to them for conveyance as aforesaid in respect of which the foregoing provisions of this section have not been complied with, or to examine, weigh or count the same and make such reasonable charge therefor as they think fit: “Provided that the company shall not refuse to convey the parcels or articles of merchandise handed to them for conveyance as aforesaid without giving the person an opportunity of having them weighed or counted upon payment of a reasonable charge.” |
| 17 & 18 Vict. c. 31 | The Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1854. | In section seven, for the words “for any horse fifty pounds, for any neat cattle per head fifteen pounds, for any sheep or pigs per head two pounds” there shall be substituted the words “for any horse one hundred pounds, for neat cattle per head fifty pounds, for any other animal five pounds.” |
Eighth Schedule. Grades to which Part IV of the Act Applies.
| Section | Group | Grades Embraced |
| 1 | Station Masters | Station Masters, Goods Agents, Yard Masters, Assistant Yard Masters, Passenger and Parcels Agents. |
| Clerks | Clerks (Male and Female). | |
| Supervisors | Traffic Controllers, Traffic Department Inspectors, Goods Department Inspectors and Foremen, Permanent Way Inspectors, Signal and Telegraph Inspectors, Locomotive Foremen, Locomotive Running Inspectors, Carriage and Wagon Inspectors, Ticket Inspectors. | |
| 2 | Signalmen, etc. Guards, etc. | Signalmen, Crossing Keepers. Passenger Guards, Goods Guards, Ballast Guards, Passenger Shunters, Goods Shunters, Yard Foremen. |
| Traffic Staff | Cloakroom and Lost Property Office Attendants, Excess Luggage Collectors, Station Foremen, Porters, Parcels Foremen, Parcels Porters, Ticket Collectors, Head Porters, Messengers. | |
| Goods Staff Cartage Staff Carriage and Wagon Examiners. | Checkers, Callers-off, Porters, Working Foremen, Head Porters. Carters, Road Motor Drivers, Working Foremen. Carriage Examiners, Chargemen, Wagon Examiners, Carriage and Wagon Oilers and Greasers. | |
| 3 | Drivers, etc. Shed Staff, etc. | Engine Drivers, and Rail Motor Men, Firemen, Cleaners. Chargemen, Engine Cleaners, Barmen, Boilerwashers, Callers-Up, Coalmen, Cranemen, Fire-droppers, Gland Packers, Pumping Enginemen, Sandmen, Shed Labourers, Steam Raisers, Stores Issuers, Timekeepers (Non-clerical), Tube Cleaners. |
| 4 | Gangers, etc. Signal and Telegraph Linemen, etc. | Gangers (Permanent Way), Platelayers, Inspectors, Timekeepers, Labourers, Toolmen. Chief Linemen, Chargemen, Linemen, Gangers (Signal and Telegraph), Installers, Labourers, Wiremen and Fixers. |
Ninth Schedule. Payments in respect of Baronial Guarantees.
| Part I. | Part I. | Part II. | Part II. | Part III. | Part III. |
| Amount to be Paid by the Minister to the Amalgamated Company in each of the following years. | Amount to be Paid by the Minister to the Amalgamated Company in each of the following years. | Amounts to be Paid by the following County Councils to the Minister in each year from 1925 to 1934, inclusive. | Amounts to be Paid by the following County Councils to the Minister in each year from 1925 to 1934, inclusive. | Amount to be Paid out of the Local Taxation A/c. to the Minister in each year from 1925 to 1934, inclusive. | Amount to be Paid out of the Local Taxation A/c. to the Minister in each year from 1925 to 1934, inclusive. |
| Year. | £ | £ | £ | ||
| 1925 | 48,688 | Cavan | 666 | ||
| 1926 | 48,688 | Clare | 4,320 | ||
| 1927 | 48,688 | Cork | 4,823 | ||
| 1928 | 48,688 | Galway | 802 | 6,804 | |
| 1929 | 48,688 | Kerry | 4,200 | ||
| 1930 | 47,288 | Leitrim | 4,221 | ||
| 1931 | 47,288 | Mayo | 866 | ||
| 1932 | 47,288 | _____ | |||
| 1933 | 47,288 | Amount to be Paid by the undermentioned County Council to the Minister in each year from 1925 to 1929 inclusive: | Amount to be Paid by the undermentioned County Council to the Minister in each year from 1925 to 1929 inclusive: | ||
| 1934 | 47,288 | Amount to be Paid by the undermentioned County Council to the Minister in each year from 1925 to 1929 inclusive: | Amount to be Paid by the undermentioned County Council to the Minister in each year from 1925 to 1929 inclusive: | ||
| Tipperary, South Riding. | £1,400 |
Tenth Schedule. Enactments not applying to Amalgamated Company.
| Session and Chapter | Short Title. | Extent of Repeal. |
| 31 & 32 Vict. ch. 119 | Regulation of Railways Act, 1868. | Section 34. |
| 36 & 37 Vict. ch. 48 | The Regulation of Railways Act, 1873. | Sections 14 and 15. |
| 57 & 58 Vict. ch. 54 | The Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1894. | Sections 1, 3 and 4. |
| 11 & 12 Geo. V. ch. 55. | The Railways Act, 1921. | Section 84, sub-section (1), and the words “save as aforesaid” in sub-section (2). |
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