The Port Adelaide, Glanville, and Largs Additional Railway Act 1908 (SA)

ANNO OCTAVO

EDWARDI V11 REGIS.

An Act to authorise the Construction of an Additional Railway from Port Adelaide to Glanville and for an Additional Railway from Glanville to Largs, and for other purposes.

[Assented to, December 23rd, 1908.1

E it Enacted by the Governor of the State of South Australia,

follows: B with the advice and consent of the Parliament thereof, as

1, This Act may be cited as " The Port Adelaide, Glanville, and Short title.

Largs Additional Railway Act, 1908."

2, The Acts mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and all Acts ~ctsincorporsted.

amending the said Acts, or any of them, or substituted for the same, or any of them, shall, so far as the same are severally applicable, be incorporated herewith.

together with all proper works and conveniences connected with the said railways (including a bridge over the Port River) as the. said

Power to comtmct

railway.

existing, may constmct and maintain-

I. A railway from a point near the Port Adelaide Railway

Station to the Glanville Railway Station; and

11. A railway from the Glanville Railway Station to the Largs

Railway Station;

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said railways and bridge are delineated in the plan deposited in the office of the Surveyor-General at Adelaide, signed " Alex. B. Moncrieff, Engineer-in-Chief," and dated the twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eight, or as the said .railways and bridge are delineated i11 any plans hereafter so deposited pursuant to any law for the time being in force as to the deposit of such plans: Provided that in case the Houses of Parlia- ment are not sitting at the time when any plans and books of reference are deposited in the office of the Surveyor-General under section 9 of " The Railway Clauses Act, 1876," the Commissioner may make deviations under the said section before causing copies of such plans and books of reference to be laid before Parliament, but such copies shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament upon their next sitting.

Power to duplicate 4, Notwithstanding anything contained in the " Largs Bay

existin Glanville to

Largs h l r a y. Railway Act, 1882," or this Act, the Commissioner may, if he deems it expedient, construct the railway from Glanville Station to Largs Station authorised by this Act by laying clown a second line of railway alongside the railway construc ted pursuant to the " Largs Bay Railway Act, 1882," so 'that the same may be maintained and worked in connection with the railway and works and conveniences connected therewith constructed under the last mentioned Act.

Power to diecontinue 5, If the Commissioner constructs the railway from Glanville

existin Glanville to .

big. &ilwaysOd to Station to Largs Station hereby authorised in a pisition or manner

remove the flame. other than the position or manner allowed by section 4 hereof, then

it shall be lawful for the Commissioner to discontinue the working.

of the existing Glanville to Largs Bay Railway, or any part or par$

thereof, and to take up and remove the same, and use the materials

so taken up and removed as he deems expedient, or sell and dispose

of such materials or any part thereof.

Gauge of railway. 6, The gauge of the railways by this Act authorised to be con-

structed shall be five feet three inches.

Fares, tdh, and

7. The Commissioner may demand for the use of the railways by this Act authorised to be constructed, and for the carriage of goods and passengers thereon and the loading and unloading of goods, such tolls, charges, and rates as are from time to time fixed in manner prescribed by any Act or Acts under which the Commis- sioner may fix such tolls, charges, and rates in respect of the railways under his control.

charges.

Norighta to damage. 8, NO person shall have any right whatever to damages or

or compenmtion. compensation for or on account of any interference with any public or other right of navigation occasioned by the construction or maintenance of the bridge mentioned in section 3, or by the

existence

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of such bricige; and the power hereby conferred upon the

~~mmissioner to construct and maintain such bridge shall be

prsmount to any such right of navigation.

In the name and on behalf of His Majesty, I hereby assent to'

this Bill.

GEORGE R. LE HUNTE, Governor.

THE

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THE SCHEDULE.

" The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act."

Act No. 26 of 1855-6, being an Act to amend "The Lands Clauses Consoli-

dation Act."

" The Lands Clauses Consolidation Amendment Act, 1881."

" The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act."

Act No. 6 of 1858, being an Act to amend " The Railways Clauses Consolidation

Act."

" The Railways Clauses Act, 1876."

" The South Australian Railways Commissioners Act, 1887."

" The South Australian Railways Commissioners Act Amendment Act, 1894."

" The South Australian Railways Commissioners Further Amendment Act, 1906."

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