General Tramways Act 1884

Subject to the provisions of the special Act and this Act, the road authority of any district in which the tramway is laid down may from time to time make regulations as to the following matters:

the rate of speed to be observed in travelling upon the tramway;

the distances at which carriages using the tramway shall be allowed to follow one after the other;

the stopping of carriages using the tramway;

to limit the number of passengers to be carried in each carriage;

the traffic on the road in which the tramway is laid;

the use of distinguishing marks or colours on carriages.

Promoters may make certain regulations

for preventing the commission of any nuisance in or upon any carriage, or in or against any premises belonging to them;

for regulating the travelling in or upon any carriage belonging to them.

And for better enforcing the observance of all or any of such regulations, it shall be lawful for such road authority and promoters respectively to make by-laws for all or any of the aforesaid purposes, and from time to time repeal or alter such by-laws and make new by-laws, provided that such by-laws be not repugnant to law or to the special Act, and such by-laws shall have no force or effect until they shall have been confirmed by the Governor and notices of such confirmation shall have been published in the Government Gazette.

No such by-laws shall be submitted to the Governor to be confirmed until after they have been published for four consecutive weeks in the Government Gazette, and have been laid before Parliament for fourteen days.