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INDIAN TRAMWAYS ACT 1902

ACT NO. 4 OF 1902

[14th February, 1902.]

Short title and extent.

1. Short title and extent. (1) This Act may be called the Indian Tramways Act, 1902; and

(2) It extends to the whole of India except 1*[the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States].

Application of Act 10, 1895, to Tramway Companies. 2. Application of Act 10, 1895, to Tramway Companies. The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that the provisions of the Indian Railway Companies Act, 1895 (10 of 1895), in so far as the same are applicable, shall apply to any Company formed for the construction of a tramway under the Bengal Tramways Act, 1883 (Ben. 3 of 1883), or the Indian Tramways Act, 1886 (11 of 1886), and thereupon it shall be lawful for the Tramway Company mentioned in the notification to pay interest upon its paid-up share capital out of capital in the manner and subject to the conditions prescribed by the said Indian Railway Companies Act, 1895. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "Part B States". The Act comes into force in Pondicherry on 1.10.1963 vide Reg. 7 of 1963, s. 3 and Sch. I.