s 73 Amendment of ss. 11 and 24 of principal Act.
(1) An order made under the principal Act may contain a provision empowering a railway company to acquire the light railway to which the order relates, not being a railway of the nature of a tramway, and paragraph ( l ) of section eleven of the principal Act shall have effect accordingly as if in that paragraph after the words “railway” there were inserted the words “or, except in the case of a railway of the nature of a tramway, empowering a railway company to acquire the railway.” (2) Where, after the passing of this Act, an order is made under the principal Act authorising a light railway (other than a light railway of the nature of a tramway), an order amending that order may confer on a railway company power to acquire the light railway, notwithstanding that the owners of the light railway do not consent, and section twenty-four of the principal Act shall have effect accordingly. (3) For the purposes of this section, a light railway of the nature of a tramway means a light railway laid wholly or mainly along the carriageway of a public road (within the meaning of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984) , and used wholly or mainly for the carriage of passengers.