This Act may be cited as the Tramways Amendment Act, 1911, and shall form part of and be read together with the Tramways Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section eleven of the Tramways Amendment Act, 1910, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following subsections:—

When land has been taken by a local authority for the construction and maintenance of tramways under section four of the principal Act, and that local authority, either before or after the taking of that land, has delegated its authority in pursuance of section nine of that Act, the following provisions shall apply:—

This section shall apply to land taken either before or after the passing of this Act.

Section two of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from the definition of “local authority” the words “in any county wherein the Counties Act, 1908, is suspended, the Boards of the several road districts and town districts within such county,” and substituting therefor the words “the Board of any road district or town district.”

Section seven of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection six thereof the word “Telegraphs” and substituting therefor the words “Public Works.”

The Governor may from time to time, on the application of any person in that behalf, grant a license to that person to lay down, construct, and maintain a private tramway on, along, or across any Government road within the meaning of the Public Works Act, 1908, on such terms and conditions as the Governor approves.

All the provisions of sections sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and twenty of the principal Act shall apply to private tramways under this section, and all references in those sections to a local authority shall be deemed to be references to the Governor, and the reference to the office of a local authority shall be deemed to be a reference to the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington.

Section sixteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection one thereof the words “within its district,” and substituting therefor the words “under its control.”

Clause six of the Second Schedule to the principal Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words: “Any such order may direct that an amount (to be specified therein) be annually set aside by the local authority out of the receipts arising from the working of the tramway to be paid into a fund for the replacement or in respect of the depreciation of the plant, machinery, and other property of the undertaking, and that all such amounts be invested from time to time by the local authority.

Clause thirty-two of the Second Schedule to the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after paragraph (h), the following new paragraph:—

Clause fifty-four of the Second Schedule to the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting therefrom all words after the words “the carriage of goods thereon.”

Subclauses four, five, and six of clause twelve of the Second Schedule to the principal Act are hereby repealed.

All new tramway-carriages licensed after the passing of this Act, except those used on cable tramways, shall be constructed with an aisle or passage-way throughout the portion of the carriage set apart for passengers:

Provided that this section shall not apply to any tramway-carriage now under construction and which is completely constructed and in operation before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twelve.

Section two of the Tramways Amendment Act, 1910, is hereby amended by inserting, after the word “motorman” in subsection three, the words “or a steam-tram driver.”

Section two of the Tramways Amendment Act, 1910, is hereby further amended by omitting from subsection three the words “or was the holder of a motorman’s license granted under any by-law made by a local authority.”

Section two of the Tramways Amendment Act, 1910, is hereby also amended by inserting, after the words “in connection with such electric tramway” in subsection five, the words “or that the applicant is a duly qualified electrical engineer, or is the manager of or a traffic inspector on any such tramway”; and by omitting the words “he is capable,” and substituting the words “the applicant in each case is capable.”