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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
Corporation were undertakers within the meaning of those sections without prejudice nevertheless to any operation which the other sections of the said Act would have had if this section had not been enacted and in particular nothing in this section shall be deemed to exclude the provisions of section 7 of the Telegraph Act 1878 in relation to the matters mentioned in that section :
(8.) The expression " electric line " has the same meaning in this section as in the Electric Lighting Act 18S2:
(9.) Any question or difference arising under this section which is directed to be determined by arbitration shall be determined by an arbitrator appointed by the Board of Trade on the application of either party whose decision shall be final and sections 30 to 32 of the Regulation of Railways Act 1868 shall apply in the like manner as if the Corporation or their agents were a company within the meaning of that Act:
(10.) Nothing in this section contained shall be held to deprive the Postmaster-General of any existing right to proceed against the Corporation by indictment action or otherwise in relation to any of the matters aforesaid.
25. The Conveyance of Mails Act 1893 shall extend and apply to the existing tramways of the Corporation as if those tramways had 'been authorised by an Act of Parliament passed after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three Provided that the Postmaster-General shall not require the Corporation to perform any services with respect to such existing tramways until
after the expiration of the subsisting leases thereof.
26. The following provisions shall apply to the use of electric power under this Act unless such power is entirely contained in and carried along with the carriages:
(1.) The Corporation shall employ either insulated returns or uninsulated metallic returns of low resistance :
(2.) The Corporation shall take all reasonable precautions in constructing placing and maintaining their electric lines and circuits and other works of all descriptions and also in working their undertaking so as not injuriously to affect by fusion or electrolytic action any gas or water pipes or other metallic pipes structures or substances:
(3.) The powers by this Act conferred with respect to the use of electric power shall be exercised only in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the Board of Trade (herein-after referred to as " the prescribed regulations ") and with any regulations which may be added thereto or substituted therefor respectively by any order which the Board of Trade may and
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