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1896. (6.) For the purposes of this section the Board of Works shall have all the powers conferred by the Lands Clauses Acts on the promoters of an undertaking.

(7.) All costs and expenses necessarily incurred by any Government department or officer under this Act shall be paid out of the money provided by this Act.

2. Where such agreement as aforesaid has been made by the Treasury with a railway company section five of the shall apply with the following modifications:—

(a.) The Order in Council mentioned in the said section five may authorise the construction or reconstruction and maintainance as part of the railway of any pier, quay, or jetty, and may empower the railway company or the Board of Works to enter into all contracts and agreements necessary for carrying the Order into effect:

(b.) The Order shall set forth the tolls and charges for passengers, animals and things conveyed on the railway:

(c.) When the Treasury have agreed to make an advance as a free grant, the Order may make provision as regards any district that during a period not exceeding ten years, to be fixed by the Order, so much of the railway as is in that district shall not be assessed to any local rate at a higher value than that at which the land occupied by the railway would have been assessed if it had remained in the condition in which it was immediately before it was acquired for the purposes of the railway. The Order may authorise the Lord Lieutenant to extend any such period: (d) The Order may upon the application of the Treasury be altered or added to by an amending Order made in like manner and subject to the like provisions as the original Order.

3.—(1.) Where an agreement under this Act has been entered, the following provisions of the principal Acts shall not apply to the projected railway; (that is to say,)—

The provisions relating to the procedure for obtaining the approval of the undertaking by any grand jury, municipal corporation, town, or other commissioners, and for obtaining a guarantee, and relating to all proceedings preliminary thereto:

The provisions relating to tolls and rates of charge:

The provisions relating to deposits or other security for the completion of the undertaking:

The provisions conferring powers and imposing duties on the county surveyor.

(2.) For the purposes of this Act there shall be substituted for the provisions aforesaid such regulations as may be made by the Lord Lieutenant in Council under this Act.

4.—(1.) The total amount advanced by the Treasury under this Act shall not at any one time exceed five hundred thousand pounds.

(2.) The National Debt Commissioners may, out of any money for the time being in their hands on account of savings banks, lend to