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General Railways Acts in sched. (C.) to apply to tramways.
7 & 8 Vict. c. 85. ss. 6, 11.
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46. The Acts specified in schedule (C.) to this Act shall, as far as circumstances will admit, and as far as those Acts are not inconsistent with this Act, apply to tramways under this Act. For the purposes of those Acts, a tramway under this Act shall be deemed to be a railway (although the moving power is animal only), and the word “company” in any of those Acts shall be deemed to mean the owners of a tramway under this Act (whether a company or not), and the Board of Works shall be deemed to be in the place of the Lords of the Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council appointed for trade and foreign plantations, and with respect to the constabulary the inspector general of constabulary shall be deemed to be in the place of the Secretary-at-War, in any of those Acts mentioned: Provided always, that with respect to tramways under this Act, such rates of speed as the Board of Works may from time to time direct shall be deemed to be substituted in sections 6 and 11 of the Railway Regulation Act, 1844, for the rates therein respectively mentioned or referred to.
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