Railways Act, 1921

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Charges on jointly owned lines.

51. Where a railway is owned jointly by two or more railway companies (being amalgamated companies or railway companies to which a schedule of standard charges has been applied) then, for the purposes of this Part of this Act—

(a) if the route lies wholly on the railway of one of the owning companies and the jointly owned railway, the charges shall be the charges which would have been chargeable if the whole route had been over the railway of that owning company; and

(b) in any other case, the charges in respect of the jointly owned railway shall be the charges appearing in the schedule of charges applied to that railway.