Light Railways (Ireland) Act, 1889

Application of Railway and Canal Traffic Acts.

9. The Regulation of Railways Act, 1873, and the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888, shall, so far as circumstances may admit, and so far as those enactments are not inconsistent with the Tramways (Ireland) Act, or this Act, apply to light railways constructed under this Act; and for the purposes of this section a light railway shall be deemed to be a railway within the meaning of the Regulation of Railways Act, 1873, and the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888.