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{{rh|1896.||Railways {Ireland) Act, 1896.|{{sc|Ch.}} 34|339}} shall be final, and the provisions of those Acts with respect to traverses shall not apply.

7.—(1.) Where any railway constructed under the principal Acts Provision in this Act has been aided out of moneys provided by Parliament,the Board of Works may at any time (whether the undertaking has become the property of a grand jury or not) appoint an engineer or other fit person to inspect and report upon the condition of the undertaking, and the working, maintenance, and development of the same.

(2.) If such engineer or person reports that the undertaking is not efficiently worked, maintained, and developed, the Board of Works shall make a report to the Lord Lieutenant, and the Lord Lieutenant in Council, after giving all persons interested an opportunity of being heard, may, if satisfied that the undertaking has not been efficiently worked,maintained, or developed, make an order appointing a manager or receiver of the undertaking for such time and with such powers as may be specified in the order.

8. The enactments mentioned in the schedule to this Act shall not apply to a railway authorised under this Act, except so far as they are required by the Board of Trade to be incorporated, or applied by the Order in Council confirming an agreement under this Act.

9. Where it is certified to the Treasury by the Lord Lieutenant Provision for that the establishment of any of the means of communication mentioned in this section is necessary for the development of the steam-boats, resources of any district, but that owing to the exceptional circumstances of the district such means of communication could not be established without special assistance from the State, the Treasury may authorise the Board of Works to enter into an agreement with any person for the establishment and maintenance of any line of steam- boats, coaches, cars, carts, or other vehicles moved by mechanical power or otherwise, and to construct or reconstruct and maintain or contract for the construction or reconstruction and maintenance of any pier, quay, or jetty, or the immediate approaches thereto, or any structure necessary for the proper use thereof; and the Treasury may, out of the money provided by this Act, make free grants in aid of any of the above purposes.

10. Any grand jury may, subject to rules and regulations under Presentment in this Act, present any sum of money in aid of any railway or other grand means of communication, or any accommodation work constructed or established under this Act; and section twenty-three of the, and section one of the , shall apply to such presentment, with this modification that the half-yearly instalments for repayment of any sum to be expended may be at a rate of not less than four pounds per cent, per annum on such sum.

11.—(1.) The Lord Lieutenant in Council may make rules and Power to make regulations for the purpose of carrying this Act into effect and for regulating the procedure thereunder: Provided that the assent of