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Railway Rolling Stock Protection Act 1872

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2Interpretation of terms.U.K.

In this Act—

  • Rolling stock” includes waggons, trucks, carriages of all kinds, and locomotive engines used on railways:

  • Rent” includes royalty or other reservation in the nature of rent:

  • Work” includes any colliery, quarry, mine, manufactory, warehouse, wharf, pier, or jetty, in or on which is any railway siding:

  • Tenant” includes a lessee, sub-lessee, or other person having an interest in a work under a lease or agreement, or by use and occupation, or being otherwise liable to pay rent in respect of a work:

  • Person” includes a body corporate:

  • Court of summary jurisdiction” means any justices of the peace, F1. . . stipendary magistrate, [F2sheriff principal, sheriff], or other magistrate or officer, by whatever name called, who is capable of exercising jurisdiction in summary proceedings for the recovery of penalties.

Textual Amendments

F1S. 2: words in the definition of “Court of summary jurisdiction” repealed (31.8.2000) by 1999 c. 22, s. 78, Sch. 15 Pt. V(3) (with s. 107, Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 2000/1920, art. 3(c)

F2Words substituted by virtue of Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 58), s. 4

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