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Order in Council to confirm agreement.
23 & 24 Vict. c. 152.
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5. Where such an agreement has been made by the Treasury, the Order in Council which the Lord Lieutenant is authorised to make under the Tramways (Ireland) Acts as altered by this Act, may provide that the forty-second and forty-third sections of the Tramways (Ireland) Act, 1860, or either of them, shall not apply to such light railway, and may include, in addition to any provisions which it might have contained if this Act had not been passed, a confirmation of the agreement so made as aforesaid, and, where such an agreement has been made with a railway company, may sanction the promotion of the light railway, or the maintenance, management, and working thereof by such railway company, and may authorise such railway company to raise as capital such additional sum of money for such purpose and in such manner as shall be specified in such Order, and for the purpose of such an agreement it shall be lawful for a railway company to be promoters of a light railway, or to make an agreement for the maintenance, management, and working thereof: Provided always, that where such sanction or authority is given to a railway company, such Order shall only be made when the railway company establishes to the satisfaction of the Lord Lieutenant in Council that a copy of the proposed Order has been submitted to the proprietors of the railway company held specially for that purpose, as if such Order were a Bill promoted in Parliament by the railway company, and that all matters and things have been done and have happened, and all times have elapsed which, if such Order were a Bill so promoted as aforesaid, should have been done and have happened and elapsed in order to constitute compliance with the Standing Orders of Parliament applicable to Bills promoted by railway companies for the like purposes to those referred to in this section.
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