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Recited Act repealed, and powers, &c. of Commissioners of Railways under subsequent Acts transferred to Board of Trade.
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1. [Repeal of recited Act.] All powers, rights, authorities, and duties vested in or exercised or performed by the Commissioners of Railways under any Act passed since the passing of the said recited Act, or which may be passed during the present session of Parliament, shall be transferred to and vested in and performed by the Lords of the Committee of her Majesty’s Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations, as if they had been named in such Acts instead of the said commissioners; . . .
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Board of Trade may continue officers appointed by Commissioners of Railways, &c.
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2. It shall be lawful for the Lords of the said committee, with the approval of the Treasury, to continue, for the transaction of the business transferred to the Lords of the said committee under this Act, all or any of the officers and servants appointed by the said Commissioners of Railways, and from time to time, with such approval, to remove such officers and servants, or any of them.
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Appointments, orders, &c. of the Board of Trade, how to be signified, &c.
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3. Where by any Act relating to railways or to any railway the Commissioners of Railways or the Lords of the said committee are empowered or required to make or issue any appointment, authority, determination, order, requisition, regulation, certificate, or notice, or to do any other act, the Lords of the said committee may . . . signify such appointment, authority, determination, order, requisition, regulation, certificate, notice, or other act by a written or printed document, signed by one of the joint secretaries of the Lords of the said committee, or by some assistant secretary, or other officer appointed by them to sign documents relating to railways; and every appointment, authority, determination, order, requisition, regulation, certificate, notice, or other act, signified by a written or printed document purporting to be so signed as aforesaid, shall be deemed to have been duly made, issued, or done by the Lords of the said committee; and every such document shall be received in evidence in all courts and before all justices and others, without proof of the authority or signature of such secretary or other officer, or other proof whatsoever, until it be shown that such document was not signed by the authority of the Lords of the said committee.
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