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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
which they are hereby empowered to make from time to time as or when they may think fit for regulating the employment of insulated returns or of uninsulated metallic returns of low resistance for preventing fusion or injurious electrolytic action of or on gas or water pipes or other metallic pipes structures or substances and for minimising as far as is reasonably practicable injurious interference with the electric wires lines and apparatus of other parties and the currents therein whether such lines do or do not use the earth as a return :
(4.) The Corporation using electric power contrary to the provisions of this Act or to any of the prescribed regulations or to any regulation added thereto or substituted therefor by any order made by the Board of Trade under the authority of this Act shall for every such offence be subject to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds and to a daily penalty not exceeding five pounds Provided always that whether any such penalty has been recovered or not the Board of Trade if in their opinion the Corporation in the use of electric power under the authority of this Act have made default in complying with the provisions of this Act or with any of the prescribed regulations or with any regulation which may have been added thereto or substituted therefor as aforesaid may by order direct the Corporation to cease to use electric power and thereupon the Corporation shall cease to use electric power and shall not again use the same unless with the authority of the Board of Trade and in every such case the Board of Trade shall make a special report to Parliament notifying the making of such order:
(5.) The Corporation shall take all reasonable and proper precautions in constructing placing and maintaining their electric lines circuits and other works of any description and in using their electric lines circuits and other works so as not injuriously to interfere with the working of any wire line or apparatus from time to time used for the purpose of transmitting electric power or of telegraphic telephonic or electric signalling communication or the currents in such wire line or apparatus Provided always that the Corporation shall be deemed to take all such reasonable and proper precautions as aforesaid if and so long as they adopt and employ at the option of the Corporation either such insulated returns or such uninsulated metallic returns of low resistance and such other means of preventing injurious interference with the electric, wires lines and apparatus of other parties and the currents therein as the Board of Trade shall direct and in giving such directions the Board shall have regard to the expense involved and to the effect thereof upon
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