Held (aff. judgment of the Second Division) that so long as the Ministry of Transport Act 1919 remained in operation the Minister had power, under and subject to the provisions of that Act, to prescribe the ‘free time’ to be allowed for loading and unloading waggons, and also to fix the charges payable for their detention beyond that time, that his decision in regard to both must be deemed to be reasonable, and that any right to appeal to arbitration under section 5 of the schedule to the Railway Rates and Charges, No. 25 (North British Railway, and co.) Order Confirmation Act 1892 (55 and 56 Vict. cap. lxiii) was, so long as the Minister remained in charge, superseded.
Viscount Haldane, Viscount Finlay, Viscount Cave, and Lord Dunedin
[1922] UKHL 275, 59 SLR 275
Bailii
Scotland
Transport
Updated: 05 January 2022; Ref: scu.632802