APPENDIX D 



REGULATIONS OF THE BOARD OF RAILWAY COMMISSIONERS FOR 

 CANADA REGARDING WIRE CROSSINGS 



No. 10 WIRES ERECTED ALONG OR ACROSS RAILWAYS 



By section 7 of chapter 22, 1-2 George V (1911), section 4 of chapter 50 of the 

 Statutes of 1910 was repealed, and the following was enacted as subsection 5 of section 

 246 of the Railway Act: 



" 5 An order of the Board shall not be required in cases in which wires or other 

 conductors for the transmission of electrical energy are to be erected or maintained 

 over or under a railway, or over or under wires or other conductors for the transmission 

 of electrical energy with the consent of the railway company or the company 

 owning or controlling such last-mentioned wires or conductors in accordance with any 

 general regulations, plans, or specifications adopted or approved by the Board for such 

 purposes." 



NOTE. The above applies to construction across the railway only. Where the 

 wires or other conductors are to be erected along the railway, an order of the Board 

 is necessary. 



General Order No. 231 of the Board of Railway Commissioners 



In the matter of section 21+6 of the Railway Act, as amended l>y chapter 37 of the 

 Acts 7-8 George V, section 4, for the carrying of wires and cables along or 

 across the tracks of railway companies under the jurisdiction of the Board. 



Upon the report and recommendation of the Electrical Engineer of the Board, 



It is ordered: 



1 That the conditions and specifications set forth in the schedule hereto annexed, 

 under the heading, " Rules for Wires erected along or across Railways," be, and the 

 same are hereby, adopted and confirmed as the conditions and specifications applicable 

 to the erection, placing, or maintaining of electric lines, wires, or cables along or 

 across all railways subject to the jurisdiction of the Board, part 1 being applicable 

 where the line or lines, wire or wires, cable or cables, is or are carried along or over 

 the railway; part 2 being applicable where the line or lines, wire or wires, cable or 

 cables, is or are carried under the railway. 



2 That any order of the Board granting leave to erect, place, or maintain any 

 line or lines, wire or wires, cable or cables, along or across the railway and referring 

 to " Rules for Wires erected along or across Railways," shall be deemed as intended 

 to be a reference to the conditions and! specifications set out in that part of the said 

 schedule which is applicable to the mode of crossing authorized. 



3 That any order of the Board granting leave to erect, place, or maintain any 

 line or lines, wire or wires, cable or cables, along or across any railway subject to the 

 jurisdiction of the Board, shall, unless otherwise expressed, be deemed to be an order 

 for leave to erect, place, and maintain the same according to the conditions and specifi- 

 cations set out in that part of the said schedule applicable thereto, which conditions 

 and specifications shall be considered as embodied in any such order without specific 

 reference thereto, subject, however, to such change or variation therein or thereof as 

 shall be expressed in such order. 



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