Railway Regulation Act 1840

XVIII Repeal of all Provisions in Railway Acts that empower Two Justices to decide Disputes respecting the proper Places for Openings in the Ledges or Flanches of Railways.

And whereas many Railway Companies are bound, by the Provisions of the Acts of Parliament by which they are incorporated or regulated, to make, at the Expence of the Owner or Occupier of Lands adjoining the Railway, Openings in the Ledges or Flanches thereof (except at certain Places on such Railway in the said Acts specified), for effecting Communications between such Railway and any Collateral or Branch Railway to be laid down over such Lands, and any Disagreement or Difference which shall arise as to the proper Places for making any such Openings in the Ledges or Flanches is by such Acts directed to be referred to the Decision of any Two Justices of the Peace within their respective Jurisdictions : And whereas it is expedient that so much of every Clause, Provision, and Enactment in any Act of Parliament heretofore passed, as gives to any Justice or Justices the Power of hearing or deciding upon any such Disagreement or Difference as to the proper Places for any such Openings in the Ledges or Flanches of any Railway, should be repealed; be it therefore enacted, That so much of every such Clause, Provision, and Enactment as aforesaid shall be repealed.