Board of Trade Arbitrations, &C . Act, 1874

Part II.

Reference to Railway Commissioners.

Power of Board of Trade to appoint Railway Commissioners to be arbitrators or umpire.

36 & 37 Vict. c. 48.

8 & 9 Vict. c. 18.

6. Where any difference to which a railway company or canal company is a party is required or authorised under the provisions of any general or special Act passed either before or after the passing of this Act, to be referred to the arbitration of or to be determined or settled by the Board of Trade, or some person or persons appointed by the Board of Trade, the Board of Trade may, if they think fit, by order in writing under the hand of the President or one of the secretaries of the Board, refer the matter for the decision of the Railway Commissioners, and appoint them arbitrators or umpire, as the case may be, and thereupon the Commissioners for the time being shall have the same powers as if the matter had been referred to their decision in pursuance of the Regulation of Railways Act, 1873, and also any further powers which the Board of Trade, or an arbitrator or arbitrators, or umpire, appointed by the Board of Trade, would have had for the purpose of the arbitration, if the difference had not been referred to the Commissioners: Provided always, that this section shall not apply to any case in which application is made to the Board of Trade for the appointment of an umpire under the twenty-eighth section of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845.