General Railway Acts: A Collection of the Public General Acts for the Regulation of Railways: Including the Companies, Lands, and Railways Clauses Consolidation Acts, Complete. 1830-74. With a Copious Index

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Waterlow & Sons, 1883 - 689 pages

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Page 653 - An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders," inclusive of any Acts amending the same.
Page 679 - By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant, connected with or used in the business of the employer...
Page 682 - Notice in respect of an injury under this Act shall give the name and address of the person injured, and shall state in ordinary language the cause of the injury and the date at which it was sustained...
Page 679 - ... the workman, or, in case the injury results in death, the legal personal representatives of the workman, and any persons entitled in case of death, shall have the same right of compensation and remedies against the employer as if the workman had not been a workman of nor in the service of the employer, -nor engaged in his work.
Page 664 - ... so paid in advance, or so much thereof as from time to time exceeds the amount of the calls then made upon the shares in respect of which such advance has been made, the Company may pay interest at such rate as the member paying such sum in advance and the directors agree upon.
Page 642 - Summary Jurisdiction Acts" means as follows : As to England, the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled "An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders...
Page 679 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer who has any superintendence entrusted to him whilst in the exercise of such superintendence...
Page 680 - Act to any right of compensation or remedy against the employer in any of the following cases ; that is to say : (i.) Under sub-section one of section one, unless the defect therein mentioned arose from, or had not been discovered or remedied owing to, the negligence of the employer, or of some person...
Page 682 - ... and if served by post shall be deemed to have been served at the time when the letter containing the same would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post...
Page 705 - ... on the thirtieth day of June and the thirty-first day of December in each...

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