Tramways (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1881

Regulations as to speed of locomotives on tramways.

5. Subject to the rules and regulations contained in section three of the Act of 1871, the Lord Lieutenant in Council, the grand jury of any county, or other authority empowered under the Tramway Acts to grant permission to construct a tramway or tramways, may permit the owners of any such tramway or tramways, or their servants duly authorised in that behalf, to drive any locomotive worked by steam along any such tramway at a speed not greater than ten miles an hour, or through any town or village at a speed not greater than six miles an hour, and where such permission has been obtained the provisions in section four of the Act of 1871 shall be deemed not to apply.