Statute Law Repeals - Law Commission - Ministry of Justice

1896: Provisional Order Confirmation Act
9.218 The Railway Rates and Charges (Lee-on-the-Solent Light Railway, &c.) Order
Confirmation Act 1896 457 covered four unrelated railway undertakings. Again,
adopting the deeming provision model, the 1896 Act applied previous charging
regimes to the different companies. So, the regime in the LSWR Rates and
Charges Act of 1891 458 was applied to the Lee-on-the-Solent Light Railway for
the purpose of merchandise traffic charging, and three 1892 confirmation Acts
were applied to railways operating in Wrexham, Liverpool and Donoughmore (in
Ireland). The eponymous Lee-on-the-Solent Light Railway opened in 1894 and its
working was taken over by the LSWR in 1909. Although it was absorbed in 1923
into the Southern Railway, by 1935 it had closed.
1909: Provisional Order Confirmation Act
9.219 The Railway Rates and Charges (Weston Clevedon and Portishead Light
Railways) Order Confirmation Act 1909 459 applied only to the named railway
company. The railway started life under 1885 legislation 460 as a tramways
undertaking and, in 1899, was redesignated a light railway. 461 The line was
extended to Portishead in 1907 but, by 1940, the line had been sold to the GWR
and then dismantled. Under the 1909 Act the railway was deemed to be included
in the GWR Rates and Charges Act of 1891 462 for the purposes of applying
merchandise traffic charges.
GROUP 3 – MISCELLANEOUS
9.220 The repeals proposed in this final group of obsolete railway Acts relate to (1) the
Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland and (2) the Railway Companies
(Accounts and Returns) Act 1911.
(1) Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland
9.221 The Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland Company was incorporated by the
Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland Act 1845 463 with power to build and
maintain a railway in Ireland from Dublin to Mullingar and Longford.
457
59 & 60 Vict. c.clxv (1896).
458
54 & 55 Vict. c.ccxvi (1891), described above.
459
9 Edw. 7 c.xcii (1909).
460
Weston-super-Mare, Clevedon and Portishead Tramways Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict.
c.clxxxii). This Act is only partially repealed.
461
Weston Clevedon and Portishead Light Railways Act 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c.ccxxi).
462
54 & 55 Vict. c.ccxxii (1891), described above.
463 8 & 9 Vict. c.cxix.
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