{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/light-railways-act-1896/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/light-railways-act-1896/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/59-60/48",
  "legislation_title": "Light Railways Act 1896",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/light-railways-act-1896",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Expenses of local authorities.",
  "text": "(1) The council of any county, borough, or district may pay any expenses incurred by them and allowed by the Light Railway Commissioners with reference to any application for an order authorising a light railway under this Act, in the case of a county council as general expenses, in the case of a borough council out of the borough fund or rate, and in the case of a district council other than a borough council as general expenses under the Public Health Acts.\nProvided that any expenses incurred by a county council under this Act may be declared by the order authorising the railway or, in the event of an unsuccessful application for such an order, by the Light Railway Commissioners, to be exclusively chargeable on certain parishes only in the county, and those expenses shall be levied accordingly as expenses for a special county purpose under the Local Government Act 1972.\n(2) Where the council of any county, borough, or district are authorised to expend any money by an order authorising a light railway under this Act, they may raise the money required,—\n(a) if the expenditure is capital expenditure, by borrowing . . . ; and\n(b) if the expenditure is not capital expenditure, as if it was on account of the expenses of an application under this Act.\n(3) The Board of Trade may from time to time on the application of any council extend, subject to the limitations of this Act, the limit of the amount which the council are authorised by an order under this Act to borrow, or to advance to a light railway company, and the limit so extended shall be substituted for the limit fixed by the order.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Any profits made by a council in respect of a light railway shall be applied in aid of the rate out of which the expenses of the council in respect of the light railway are payable.\n(6) Where a rate is levied for meeting any expenditure under this Act, the demand note for the rate shall state, in a form prescribed by the Secretary of State the proportion of the rate levied for that expenditure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed (S.) by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947 (c. 43), Sch. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 272(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by (E.W.) Local Government Act 1933 (c. 51), Sch. 11 Pt. IV and (S.) Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947 (c. 43), Sch. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Ss. l6(4), 17 repealed by (E.W.)Local Government Act 1933 (c. 51), Sch. 11 Pt. IV and (S.) Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947 (c. 43), Sch. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Ministry of Health Act 1919 (c. 21), s. 3(1)(a), Sch. 1 para. 1, S.I. 1951/142 (1951 I, p. 1348), art. 3(1), 1951/753 (1951 I, p. 1354), arts. 2(1), 8(1), 1951/1900 (1951 I, p.1347), (W.) 1965/319, arts. 2(1) 10(1)(a), Sch. 1 Pt. I, (E.) 1970/1681, arts. 2(1), 6(3), (S.) S.R.& O. 1920/2123 (Rev. XV, p. 223; 1920, p. 1449), art 3 (iv), Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1928 (c. 34), s. 1 and Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939 (c. 20), s. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 16 amended by Light Railways Act 1912 (c. 19), s. 5(4)-(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/59-60/48/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:28:54.888339+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}