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II.-STANDING ORDERS, COMPLIANCE WITH WHICH
IS TO BE PROVED BEFORE THE EXAMINERS.

In these orders, unless the context otherwise requires

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The term "tramway means a tramway laid along a street or
road; the term "tramroad" means a tramway laid elsewhere
than along a street or road: Provided that where a bill relates
partly to tramroad and partly to tramway as here defined, the
provisions of these orders shall apply to such tramroad or
tramway, however the same may be described in the bill:
The term "railway" includes "tramroad":

The term "lessee" includes a person holding an agreement for
a lease:

The term "occupier" applies only to ratepayers, and to other persons not being ratepayers, whose interest in the premises occupied is not less than that of a quarterly tenant :

The term "London," except where the city of London is expressly mentioned, means the administrative county of London:

The term "mechanical power " includes steam, electrical and every other motive power not being animal power.

Other expressions defined in the Interpretation Act, 1889, have the same meanings in these orders as if these orders were an Act of Parliament passed after the commencement of that Act.

Compliance with the following Standing Orders shall be proved before one of the examiners, viz. :

1. Notices by Advertisement.

3. In all cases where application is intended to be made for leave to bring in a bill relating to any of the subjects included in either of the two classes of private bills [local bill], notice shall be given stating the objects of such intended application, and the time at which copies of the bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office; and if it be intended to apply for powers for the compulsory purchase of lands or houses, or compulsory user of the same, or for extending the time granted by any former Act for that purpose, or to amalgamate with any other company, or to sell or lease the undertaking, or to purchase or take on lease the undertaking of any other company, or to enter into working agreements or traffic arrangements, or to dissolve any company, or to amend or repeal any former Act or Acts, or to levy any tolls, rates, or duties, or to alter any existing tolls, rates, or duties, or to confer, vary, or extinguish any exemptions from payment of tolls, rates, or duties, or to confer, vary, or extinguish any other rights or privileges, or to impose on any lands or houses, or to render any lands or houses liable to the imposition of any charge in

Notices to
state objects
of application
and powers

intended to
be applied for.

Notices to

of parishes,

&c.

respect of any improvement, the notice shall specify such intention, and shall also specify the company, person, or persons with, to, from, or by whom it is intended to be proposed that such amalga mation, sale, purchase, lease, working agreements, or traffic arrangements shall be made; and the whole of the notice relating to the same bill shall, except as provided by Standing Order 9, be included in the same advertisement, which shall be headed by a short title, descriptive of the undertaking or bill, and shall be subscribed with the name and address of the person, company, corporation or firm responsible for the publication of the notice.

4. In cases of bills included in the second class [local bills of the contain names second class], . . ., such notices shall also contain a description of all the termini, together with the names of the parishes, townlands, and extra-parochial places from, in, through, or into which the work is intended to be made, maintained, varied, extended, or enlarged, or in which any land or houses intended to be taken are situate, and where any common or commonable land is intended to be taken or used compulsorily, such notice shall contain the name of such common or commonable land (if any), and the name of any parish in which such land is situate, together with an estimate of the quantity of such common or commonable land proposed to be taken or used compulsorily, and shall state the time and place of deposit of the plans, sections, books of reference, and copies of the Gazette notice respectively, with the clerks of the peace and sheriff clerks, and also with the officers respectively mentioned in Standing Order 29, as the case may be.

Notices to

tramway.

6. In cases of bills for laying down a tramway, the notice shall specify line of specify at what point or points and on which side of the street or road it is proposed to lay such tramway so that for a distance of thirty feet or upwards a less space than nine feet six inches, or if it is intended to run thereon carriages or trucks adapted for use upon railways a less space than ten feet six inches shall intervene between the outside of the footpath on the side of the street or road and the nearest rail of the tramway. In the case of a bill for constructing a tramroad or tramway the notice shall specify the gauge to be adopted, and the motive power to be employed.

Publication

Gazettes and

newspapers.

See sect. 9 of Tramways Act, 1870, and notes thereto, and ante, p. 325.

9. In the months of October and November, or either of them, of notices in immediately preceding the application for a bill the notice shall be published once in the London, Edinburgh, or Dublin Gazette, as the case may be, and in the following newspapers, namely(1.) In the case of a bill relating specially to any particular city, borough, town, or urban district, the notice shall be published once in each of two successive weeks, with an interval between such publications of not less than six clear days, in some newspaper or newspapers published in

such city, borough, town, or district, or if there be no newspaper published therein, then in some newspaper or newspapers published in the county in which such city, borough, town, or district, or any part thereof is situate;

(2.) In the case of a bill authorising the construction of works or the taking of lands, or extending the time granted by a former Act for the construction of works or taking of lands, situate in one county only, or relating to an undertaking or to lands situate in one county only, or promoted by a company or companies or other parties possessed of an undertaking situate in one county only, the notice shall be published once in each of two successive weeks, with an interval between such publications of not less than six clear days, in some newspaper or newspapers published in that county, or if there be no newspaper published therein, then in some newspaper or newspapers published in some county adjoining or near thereto;

(3.) In the case of a bill authorising the construction of works or the taking of lands, or extending the time granted by a former Act for the construction of works or the taking of lands, in more than one county, or relating to an undertaking or to lands situate in more than one county, or promoted by a company or companies or other parties possessed of an undertaking situate in more than one county, the notice shall be published once in each of two successive weeks, with an interval between such publications of not less than six clear days, in some newspaper or newspapers of the county in which the principal office of the company or companies or other parties who are the promoters of the bill is situate, [or in case there be no such office, then in a newspaper published in each county in which any such works, lands, or undertaking are situate,] and in some newspaper or newspapers published in each county in which any new works are proposed to be constructed, or in which any lands are intended to be taken, or in which any works or lands are situate, in respect of which any new or further powers for the completion or taking thereof are intended to be applied for, or if there be no newspaper published therein, then in some newspaper or newspapers published in some county adjoining or near thereto provided always, that if the bill relates to lands or works, situate in more than one county, it shall be sufficient (at the option of the promoters) to publish in each of such counties so much only of the notice as relates specifically to the lands or works situate in that county, together with the short title of the notice and an intima

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Notices to be posted in street in case

of tramways.

Application

to owners, &c. on or before 15th December.

List of

owners, &c. assenting, dissenting, and neuter.

Notice to frontagers in case of tramways.

tion that the notice has been published in full or sent for publication in full in the Gazette;

(4.) No publication under this order shall be made after the 27th day of November.

10. In the months of October and November, or one of them, immediately preceding the application for any bill for laying down a tramway, or constructing an underground railway, when such bill contains powers authorising any alteration or disturbance of the surface of any street or road, notice thereof shall be posted for fourteen consecutive days in every such street or road, in such manner as the authority having the control of such street or road shall direct; and if after such application to such authority no such direction shall be given, then in some conspicuous position in every such street or road, and such notice shall also state the place or places at which the plans of such tramway or railway will be deposited.

2. Notices and Applications to Owners, Lessees, and Occupiers of Lands and Houses.

11. On or before the 15th day of December immediately preceding the application for a bill for power to take any lands or houses compulsorily, or for compulsory user of the same, or for an extension of the time granted by any former Act for that purpose or to impose an improvement charge on any lands or houses, or to render any lands or houses liable to the imposition of an improvement charge, application in writing shall be made to the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of all such lands and houses, inquiring whether they assent, dissent, or are neuter in respect of such application, and in cases of bills included in the second class [local bills of the second class], such application shall be, as nearly as may be, in the form set forth in the Appendix marked (A).

12. Separate lists shall be made of the names of such owners, lessees and occupiers, distinguishing those who have assented, dissented, or are neuter in respect to such application, or who have returned no answer thereto; and where no written acknowledgment has been returned to an application forwarded by post, or where such application has been returned as undelivered at any time before the making up of such lists, the direction of the letter in which the same was so forwarded shall be inserted therein.

13. On or before the 15th day of December immediately preceding the application for a bill for the laying down a tramway, notice in writing shall be given to the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of all houses, shops, or warehouses abutting upon any part of any street or road, where, for a distance of thirty feet or upwards it is proposed that a less space than nine

feet six inches shall intervene between the outside of the footpath on either side of the road, and the nearest rail of the tramway, or a less space than ten feet six inches, if it is intended to run on the tramway carriages or trucks adapted for use upon railways.

[H. C. 13, H. L. 13A.] On or before the 15th day of December immediately preceding the application for any bill for laying down a tramway, crossing any railway or tramway on the level, or crossing any railway, tramway, or canal by means of a bridge, or otherwise affecting or interfering with such railway, tramway, or canal, notice in writing of such application shall be served upon the owner or reputed owner, and upon the lessee or reputed lessee of such railway, tramway, or canal, and such notice shall state the place or places at which the plans of the tramway to be authorised by such bill have been or will be deposited.

See sect. 9 of Tramways Act, 1870, and notes thereto, and ante, p. 326.

16. On or before the 15th day of December immediately preceding Notice to the application for a bill whereby the whole or any part of a work owners, &c. authorised by any former Act is intended to be relinquished, notice in writing of such bill shall be served upon the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of the lands in which any part of the said work intended to be thereby relinquished is situate.

17. On or before the 21st day of December immediately preceding Alteration or the application for a bill whereby any express statutory provision repeal of provisions, then in force for the protection of the owner, lessee, or occupier of notice to any property, or for the protection or benefit of any public trustees owners, &c. or commissioners, corporation or person, specifically named in such provision, is sought to be altered or repealed, notice in writing of such bill, and of the intention to alter or repeal such provision, shall be served upon every such owner, lessee, or occupier, public trustees or commissioners, corporation or person.

way bills.

22. In cases of bills to authorise the laying down of a tramway Consents in the promoters shall, [on or before the eighteenth day of January,] case of tramobtain the consent of the local authority of the district or districts through which it is proposed to construct such tramway, and where in any district there is a road authority distinct from the local authority, the consent of such road authority shall also be necessary in any case where power is sought to break up any road subject to the jurisdiction of such road authority. For the purposes of this order, in England and Scotland the local and road authorities shall be the local and road authorities for the purposes of "The Tramways Act, 1870," except that in the case of a rural district in England the rural district council shall be deemed to be the local authority, and in Ireland the local and road authorities shall be the district councils and the county councils respectively: Provided that where it is proposed to lay down a continuous line of tramway in

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