Volume Three - The Pontoon Era - The Taff Vale Railway Act, 1908 . . .

6. The Company shall not under the powers of this Act construct on the shore of the sea or of any creek bay arm of the sea or navigable river communicating therewith where and so far up the same as the tide flows and reflows any work without the previous consent of the Board of Trade to be signified in writing under the hand of one of the secretaries or assistant secretaries of the Board of Trade and then only according to such plan and under such restrictions and regulations as the Board of Trade may approve of such approval being signified as last aforesaid and where any such work may have been constructed the Company shall not at any time alter or extend the same without obtaining previously to making any such alteration or extension the like consents or approvals. If any such work be commenced or completed contrary to the provisions of this section the Board of Trade may abate and remove the same and restore the site thereof to its former condition and the costs and charges of the Company and the amount of such costs and charges shall be a debt due from the Company to the Crown and shall be recoverable as a Crown debt or summarily.

7. The Company may apply to the purposes of this Act to which capital is properly applicable any of the moneys which they now have in their hands or which they have power to raise by shares or stock or debenture stock or borrowing by virtue of any Acts relating to them and which may not be required for the purposes to which they are by any such Act made specially applicable.

8. Nothing in this Act contained shall exempt the Company or their railways from the provisions of any general Act relating to railways or the better and more impartial audit of the accounts of the railway companies passed before or after the commencement of this Act 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 to be taken by the Company.

9. The Company shall deliver to the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies a printed copy of the Act and he shall retain and register the same and if such copy is not so delivered within three months from the passing of this Act the Company shall incur a penalty not exceeding two pounds for every day after the expiration of those three months during which the default continues and any director or manager of the Company who knowingly and willfully authorises such default shall incur the like penalty. Every penalty under this section shall be recovered summarily.