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[Ch. 55.] terms and subject to such conditions as may be approved by the Minister after consultation with the Minister of Health:

Provided that the procedure laid down in the Borough Funds Acts, 1872 and 1903, shall apply when a council propose to give or join in giving such a guarantee in like manner as it applies when a council propose to incur expenditure in opposing a Bill in Parliament.

(2) Any expenses incurred by the council in satisfying such guarantee shall be defrayed in like manner as expenses incurred by them with reference to an application for an order authorising a light railway under the principal Act.

(3) Paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of. section eleven of the principal Act shall apply in respect of such guarantee as if the guarantee were an advance by the council.

Powers of charging by light railway companies

72.—Where the powers of a light railway company of making any charges are fixed by reference light railway to the powers of charging of another railway company, companies. and the powers of charging of that other railway company have been. increased under directions issued by the. Minister in pursuance of the powers conferred upon him by the -Ministry of Transport Act, 1919, the powers of charging of the light railway company shall until the appointed day be, and shall be deemed to have been, proportionately increased.

(2) On and after the appointed day, any light railway company whose railway connects (whether by means of a junction or of adjacent sidings) with the railway of an amalgamated company, or of a railway company to which a schedule of standard charges has been applied, shall be entitled to, make charges not exceeding those which such company is;or the time being authorised to make, with this qualification that for the purpose of the calculation of mileage rates each mile of a light railway shall be treated as if it were one mile and a quarter.

(3) The provisions of any light railway order conferring powers of charging shall have effect, subject to the provisions of this section.

(4)Part III., of this Act shall not apply to light railways except so far as it relates to—

(i) to the granting, variation, cancellation, and apportionment of through rates; 60