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Ch.48.
Light Railways Act, 1896.
59 & 60 Vict.

Section 12.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Enactments relating to Safety, &c.

Session and Chapter. Title or Short Title. Enactment referred to
2 & 3 Vict. 0. 46. An Act to amend an Act of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth relating to highways. The whole Act..
5 & 6 Vict c. 65. The Railway Regulation Act, 1842. Sections four, five, six, nine, ten.
9 & 10 Vict. c. 67. An Act for regulating the gauge of railways. The whole Act.
31&32 Vict. c.119. The Regulation of Railways Act, 1868. Sections nineteen, twenty, twenty-two, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, and twenty-nine.
34 & 35 Vict. c. 78. The Regulation of Railways Act, 1871. Section five.
36 & 37 Vict. c. 76. The Railway Regulation Act (Returns of signal arrangements, working, &c.), 1873. Sections four and six.
41 & 42 Vict. c. 20. The Railway Returns (Continuous Brakes) Act, 1878. The whole Act.
46 & 47 Vict. c. 34. The Cheap Trains Act, 1883 Section three.
62 & 63 Vict. c. 67. The Regulation of Railways Act, 1889. The whole Act.

Section 17.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Joint Committees.

(a.) Any council taking part in the appoiutment of a joint committee may delegate to the committee any power which the council may exercise for the purpose for which the committee is appointed.
(b.) A council shall not be authorised to delegate to a joint committee any power of making a rate or borrowing money.
(c.) Subject to the terms of the delegation the joint committee shall have the same power in all respects with respect to any matter delegated to them, as the councils appointing it or any of them.
(d.) The members of the joint committee may be appointed at such times and in such manner, and shall hold office for such period, as may be fixed by the councils appointing them:
Provided that a member shall not hold office beyond the expiration of fourteen days after the day for the ordinary election of councillors of the council by which he was appointed or in Scotland after the day for the