Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act 1878

31 Power to local authorities to make orders as to hours during which locomotives may pass over roads

Section eight of the [28 & 29 Vict. c. 83.] Locomotive Act, 1865, is hereby repealed, so far as relates to England; and in lieu thereof, be it enacted that the mayor, aldermen, and commons in the city of London, and the Metropolitan Board of Works in the metropolis, exclusive of the city of London, and the council of any borough which has a separate court of quarter sessions, and the county authority of any county, may make byelaws as to the hours during which locomotives are not to pass over the turnpike roads or highways situate within the areas respectively above-mentioned, the hours being in all cases Consecutive hours and no more than eight out of the twenty-four, and for regulating the use of locomotives upon any highway, or preventing such use upon every bridge where such authority is satisfied that such use would be attended with danger to the public ; and any person in charge of a locomotive acting contrary to such byelaws shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds.