The Short Title of this Act is “The Tramways Act 1872 Amendment Act, 1888.”

If any person (except under a lease from, or by agreement with, the promoters or under license, as provided by “The Tramways Act, 1872,” hereinafter called “the principal Act”) uses upon the rails of any tramway, or any part of such rails, any car, carriage, or other vehicle for the conveyance of passengers or goods for hire, having the gauge of all its wheels, or the gauge of two of its wheels, corresponding with, or nearly corresponding with, the gauge of such tramway, so as to be suitable to run with one (or more) of its wheels at each side simultaneously on the rails of such tramway, such person shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prevent any person crossing or using the rails of any tramway with such car, carriage, or other vehicle in such manner and to such an extent as the exigencies of public traffic may render necessary but not further or otherwise.

In addition to the regulations that the promoters or lessees of any tramway are empowered to make by virtue of section forty-seven of the principal Act, such promoters or lessees may from time to time make regulations—

and all the provisions of the principal Act shall apply to the regulations hereby authorised to be made.

This Act shall be read, and deemed incorporated with the principal Act.