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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
railway company and the Corporation apply and have effect (that is to say) :-
(1.) The provisions of section 7 (For protection of the North Eastern Railway Company) of the Order of 1881 shall so far as the same are applicable in that behalf extend and apply to the construction maintenance and use of Tramway No. 1 by this Act authorised across the railway of the railway company where it crosses Laygate Lane on the level as if such provisions were re-enacted in this Act and made expressly applicable to the said tramway and as if the expression " this Act" had been substituted therein for the expression " this Order" and the expression " the Corporation " for the expression " the promoters " :
(2.) Where any tramway by this Act authorised is laid along a road over which any railway or works of the railway company are carried by means of a bridge the Corporation shall so construct and maintain the same and any apparatus as a motive power in connexion therewith as not to injuriously affect the said bridges or the approaches thereto or the works of the railway thereon or thereunder and in the event of any injury being occasioned to such bridges approaches or works or any part or parts thereof respectively by the construction of such tramways or apparatus under the same whether such injury occur either during or after the construction of or in maintaining such tramways or apparatus the railway company may at the expense of the Corporation restore such bridges approaches and works or the part or parts which may be injured to as good a state and condition as they were in before such injury was occasioned and the Corporation shall recoup to and indemnify that company against all sums costs and expenses which they may pay or be put to in restoring such bridges approaches and works in manner aforesaid or by reason of any impediment or obstruction to the traffic on the railway occasioned by such injury and that company may recover from the Corporation all such sums costs and expenses together with full costs and charges in like manner as any simple contract debt:
(3.) Any difference which may arise between the Corporation and the railway company touching anything to be done or the reasonableness of any charges or in any manner in connexion with this section shall (unless otherwise provided by this section) be settled by a referee to be nominated by the Board of Trade under section 33 of the Tramways Act 1870 and such lastly mentioned section shall unless otherwise provided
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