1922.] 



Railway Rates and Agriculture. 



16. The Railways Act further provides that the standard 

 charges and all exceptional charges shall be reviewed at the 

 end of the first complete financial year after the appointed day 

 and at the end of each succeeding year, but the Minister of 

 Transport may direct that no review shall take place as respects 

 any year after the second annual review unless requested by 

 the Railway Company or by the Board of Trade at the instance 

 of any representative body of traders. 



17. Conditions of Carriage. — Before 31st ^vlarch, 1922, or 

 within such further time as the Rates Tribunal may permit, the 

 Railway Companies are required to submit to and publish in 

 such a manner as may be prescribed by the Rates Tribunal the 

 terms and conditions on which : — 



(a) Merchandise other than live stock: 

 (h) Live stock: 



(c) Damageable goods not properly protected by packing; 

 will be carried by rail. 



The terms and conditions so submitted will be considered 

 and settled by the Rates Tribunal after hearing any represen- 

 tative body of traders who may desire to be heard, or any 

 person who may obtain a certificate from the Board of Trade that 

 he is in their opinion a proper person to be heard, or any other 

 party whom they consider entitled to be heard. 



The Rates Tribunal will publish in the liOndon and Edinburgh 

 Gazettes the terras and conditions which they consider just 

 and reasonable, and fix a date, not earlier than two months after 

 such publication, when they shall come into operation. 



The terms and conditions so settled shall be the standard 

 terms and conditions of carriage for all Companies and shall be 

 deemed to be reasonable. 



18. The jurisdiction of the Rates Tribunal with regard to stan- 

 dard rates nnd terms and conditions of carriage extends to mer- 

 chandise traffic by passenger as well as goods trains, but a 

 Railwav Company is not under obligation to carry by passenger 

 train any merchandise other than perishable. 



