South Australian Consolidated Acts

GENERAL TRAMWAYS ACT 1884 - SECT 4

4—Act to apply to existing tramways if directors petition to be brought under the provisions of this Act

The directors of any tramway undertaking heretofore authorised may apply to the Government by petition praying that any such tramway undertaking may be brought under the provisions of this Act; and the Governor, if he shall deem it advisable so to do, may, on receipt of such petition, by proclamation in the Government Gazette, declare that this Act shall apply to any such tramway undertaking; and from and after such proclamation all the clauses and provisions of this Act shall apply to such tramway undertaking, and all clauses and provisions in the Act heretofore passed authorising such tramway undertaking inconsistent with any clause or provision of this Act shall be deemed to have been repealed.