(St. R. & O. Revised to December 31, 1903).

PROVISIONAL ORDER, SCOTLAND.

GENERAL ORDERS FOR THE REGULATION OF PROCEEDINGS UNDER

AND IN PURSUANCE OF THE PRIVATE LEGISLATION PROCE-

DURE (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1899, MADE MAY 28, 1900, BY THE

CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND

THE CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS IN THE HOUSE OF

COMMONS ACTING JOINTLY WITH THE SECRETARY FOR
SCOTLAND, AS AMENDED UP TO DECEMBER 31, 1903.*

1900 No. 582 as amended by 1900 No. 937, 1901 Nos. 186,311
and 669 and 1902 No. 254.

Table of Contents.

I. The two classes of Provisional Orders.-Examiners.-

No. of Orders

1 to 2b

3 to 10

11 to 22

...

23 to 23

69 to 75

4. Form of Plans, Books of Reference, Sections and

Cross Sections

5. Estimates, Deposits of Money and Declarations

6. Consents of Proprietors and Members of Companies

and Directors

...

III. Proceedings of and in relation to the Examiners
IV. Proceedings of and in relation to Commissioners appointed
under the principal Act, and other Proceedings and
Requirements in regard to Provisional Orders:-
Proceedings before, at, and after an Inquiry...
Railway, Tramroad and Tramway Provisional Orders
Local Government Provisional Orders

Houses of the Labouring Classes

...

75a to 101

102 to 131

132

133

The orders are here reprinted as amended as provided by Order 147.

The Treasury Orders as to the Collection and Disposal of Fees form

Appendix B.

Note.

The General Orders as here reprinted are those made in May 28th, 1900
(House of Commons Paper 195, 1900), as added to and amended by those
made on August 5th, 1900, December 13th, 1900, February 19th, 1901,
March 26th, 1901, August 15th, 1901 and March 20th, 1902. The General
Orders of May, as amended in August and December, 1900, are printed in
Statutory Rules and Orders, 1900, p.p. 695-774, and the further amending
Orders are printed at length in Statutory Rules and Orders, 1901, pp.
390-2, and 1902, p. 425, respectively.

The following table shows in column 1 the General Orders under the Pro-

cedure Act from No. 69 onward, and in columns 2 and 3 the corresponding

Standing Orders (if any) of the House of Lords and House of Commons

respectively. From No. 1 to No. 68 the General Orders and Standing Orders

correspond, but there are no General Orders corresponding to Standing

Orders Nos. 8, 28, 34, 39, 60 and 67, and these numbers have consequently

been omitted from the series. From No. 69 onwards the number of the

corresponding Standing Order is quoted in the margin of the text follow-

ing; the italicised numbers are those of the Lords Orders.

GENERAL ORDERS FOR THE REGULATION OF PROCEEDINGS UNDER AND IN PURSUANCE OF THE PRIVATE LEGISLATION PROCEDURE (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1899 (62 & 63 VICT., CAP. 47, SEC. 15).

I.

The Two Classes of Provisional Orders.

divided into two Class: es.

Orders

1. For the purposes of these General Orders all Provisional Provisional Orders under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, to which the General Orders are applicable shall be divided into the two following Classes, according to the subjects to which they respectively relate:

1ST CLASS:

Arbitration in respect of the Affairs of any Company,
Corporation, or Persons.

Burial Ground, Making, Maintaining, or Altering.
Charters and Corporations, enlarging or altering Powers of.
Church or Chapel, Building, Enlarging, Repairing, or
Maintaining.

City or Burgh, Paving, Lighting, Watching, Cleansing,
or Improving, Incorporating, Extending, Altering, or
Regulating.

Company, Incorporating, Regulating, or giving Powers to.
County Rate.

County Buildings, Court House.

Crown, Church, or Corporation Property, or Property
held in Trust for Public or Charitable Purposes.

Ferry, where no work is to be executed.

Fishery, Making, Maintaining, or Improving.

Gaol or House of Correction.

Gas Work.

Improvement charge, unless proposed in connection with
a Second Class Work to be authorised by the Pro-
visional Order.

Land, Inclosing, Draining, or Improving.

Local Court, constituting.

Market or Market-place, Erecting, Improving, Repairing,
Maintaining, or Regulating.

Police.

Poor, Maintaining or Employing.

Poor Rate.

Powers to sue and be sued, conferring.

1st Class.

2nd Class.

1ST CLASS continued.

Stipendiary Magistrate, or any Public Officer, Payment of.
And

Continuing or amending an Act passed, or Order confirmed, for any of the purposes included in this or the Second Class, where no further work than such as was authorised by a former Act or Order is proposed to be made.

2ND CLASS :

Making, Maintaining, Varying, Extending, or Enlarging

any

Aqueduct.
Archway.
Bridge.
Canal.

Cut.

Dock.

Drainage where it is
not provided in the
Provisional Order
that the Cut shall
not be more than
Eleven feet wide at
the bottom.
Embankment for re-
claiming Land from
the sea or any Tidal
River

Ferry, where any work

is to be executed. Harbour.

Navigation.
Pier.

Port.

Public Carriage Road.

Railway.

Reservoir.
Sewer.

Street.

Subway.

Tramway.
Tramroad.

Tunnel.
Waterwork.

If the promoters of any Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, shall be of opinion that the proposed Provisional Order does not fall within either the first or the second class of Provisional Orders aforesaid, they shall inform the Secretary for Scotland to that effect, and if the Secretary for Scotland concurs in their opinion, shall give the like notices and take the like action in regard to the preparation of the draft Provisional Order, and otherwise, as nearly as may be, as if the draft Provisional Order were a Private Bill; provided that in such case the Petition and draft Order shall be lodged, and dissent from and objections to the draft Order shall be stated, as prescribed by General Orders in cases to which such Orders are applicable.

Examiners.

Examiners

2. The Examiners for the purpose of these General Orders for purposes shall be those assigned for such purpose under the direction of the Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords and the Chairman of Ways and Means in the House of Commons, acting in terms of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899.

of Orders.