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[Ch. 55.] one central conference for all the amalgamated companies, both such conferences being constituted as in this section provided.

Amendment of procedure for making light railway orders.

68.—(1) Orders under the amended by any subsequent enactment (which Act as so amended is in this Part of this Act referred to as " the light railway orders. principal Act ") shall, instead of being made by the Light Railway Commissioners and confirmed by the Minister of Transport as successor to the Board of Trade in manner as provided by the principal Act, be made by the Minister, and accordingly—

(a) the powers of the Light Railway Commissioners shall be transferred to the Minister;

(b) the Minister on considering an application for an order shall take all such matters into consideration and do all such things as he, as successor of the Board of Trade, is under the principal Act required to take into consideration and do on submission of an order to him for confirmation;

and the principal Act shall have effect as if for references to the Light Railway Commissioners there were substituted references to the Minister, and for references to the confirmation of orders by the Minister, as successor to the Board of Trade, there was substituted references to the making of orders by the Minister:

Provided that any limitation on the duration of the powers of the Light Railway Commissioners contained in the principal Act or in any Act extending the duration of those powers shall not apply to the Minister.

(2) If the Minister is of opinion for any of the reasons mentioned in subsection (3) of section nine of the principal Act that the proposals of the promoters ought to be submitted to Parliament he may, if he thinks fit, make an order as a provisional order and submit the proposals to Parliament by bringing in a Bill for the confirmation of the order, and subsections (2) and (3) of section one of the Light Railways Act, 1912, shall apply with respect to such Bill. 58