(2) Subject as in this section provided, no company, body, or person not directly interested in the subject matter of any application shall be entitled to make such application. (3) Any authority or body as aforesaid may appear in opposition to any application, representation, or submission in any case where such authority, or the persons represented by them, appear to the Board of Trade to be likely to be affected by the decision on any such application, representation, or submission. (4) The Board of Trade may, if they think fit, require as a condition of giving a certificate under this section, that security be given in such manner and to such amount as they think necessary, for costs which may be incurred. (5) Any certificate granted under this section shall, unless withdrawn, be in force for twelve months from the date on which it was given.}} (6) Any expenses incurred by any such authority in or incidental to any such application or opposition shall be defrayed out of the rate or fund out of which the expenses of the authority in the. execution of. their ordinary duties are defrayed, and, in the case of a rural district council in England, shall be defrayed as general expenses unless the. Minister of Health directs that they shall be defrayed as special expenses.
Provision as to railway officers transferred to Minister
79. Paragraph (iii) of subsection (1) of section seven of the Ministry. of Transport Act, 1919 (which provides for officers and servants transferred to the Minister officers remaining full members of railway pension funds and superannuation funds, shall—
(a)in the case of an officer or servant transferred from any railway company to whom it is applicable at the time when the Minister, ceases to be in possession of the undertaking or any part of the undertaking of the company continue to apply as respects that officer or servant or, after such cessation, so long as he remains in the service of the Crown; and
(b) apply to any officer or servant of any railway company who, with his consent and the consent of the railway company, may hereafter be trans-