An Act to extend the time limited for the compulsory purchase of lands and completion of the Railway and Works authorised by the Ramsey and Somersham Junction Railway Acts 1875 and 1878 and for other purposes.

8th April 1881

Whereas by the Ramsey and Somersham Junction Railway Act 1875 which received Royal Assent on the thirteenth day of Agust 1875 (in this Act called “the Act of 1875”) the Ramsey and Somersham Junction Railway Company (in this Act called the Company”) were incorporated for the purpose of making and maintaining a Railway from the Holme and Ramsey Railway at Ramsey to the Greta Eastern Railway at Somersham and for other purposes:
And whereas by the Act of 1875 the time for the compulsory purchase of lands for the purposes of the Act was limited to three years from the passing of that Act and the time for the completion of the Railway was limited to five years from the passing of the said Act:
And whereas by the Ramsey and Somersham Junction railway Act 1878 (in this Act called “the Act of 1878”) an extension of time was given to the Company for purchasing land and by that Act the time for making the Railway was also extended:
And whereas it is expedient that the periods now limited for the compulsory purchase of lands and completion of the Railway authorised by the said Acts of 1875 and 1878 be extended but the objects aforesaid cannot be effected without the authority of parliament:
May it please Your Majesty that it may be enacted and be it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows (that is to say):-
1. This Act may be cited as the Ramsey and Somersham Junction Railway Act 1881
2. Part II (relating to extension of time) of the Railways Clauses Act 1863 is (except as expressly varies by this Act) incorporated with and forms part of this Act.
3. The several words and expressions to which by the Act in part incorporated with this Act meanings are assigned have in this Act the same respective meanings unless excluded by the subject or context.
4. the powers of the Company for the compulsory purchase of lands for the purposes of the Railway authorised by the Acts of 1875 and 1878 may be exercised within two years but shall not be exercised after the expiration of two years from the 13th day of August 1881.
5. The period limited by the recited Acts for the completion of the Railway authorised by the Act of 1875 is hereby extended to three years from the 13th day of August 1881 and if the Railway be not then completed then at the expiration of that period the powers granted to the Company for making and completing the said Railway or otherwise in relation thereto shall cease to be exercised except so much thereof as shall then be completed.
6. The provisions of sections 23 and 24 of the Act of 1875 shall be read and have effect as if the period limited by that Act for the completion of the Railway were three tears from the 13th day of August 1881.
7. Nothing in the Acts of 1875 and 1878 or this Act contained shall exempt the Company or their Railway from the provisions of any general Act relating to Railways or the better and more impartial audit of the accounts of Railway Companies now in force or which may hereafter pass during this or any future Session of Parliament or from any future revision or alteration under the authority of Parliament of the maximum rates of fares and charges or of the rates for small parcels authorised by the recited Acts.
8. All costs charges and expenses of and incident to the preparing for obtaining and passing of this Act or otherwise in relation thereto shall be paid by the Company.