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If rate be not paid by the lessor it may be recovered from the occupier, who may deduct it from rent, or recover it from lessor by civil bill.
Agreement by occupier to waive right to deduct void.
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3. If such rate be not paid by such lessor within four calendar months after the making thereof it shall be lawful for the guardians of the union to give notice in writing, in the same manner in which summonses may be served under the said first-recited Act, to the occupier or respective occupiers of any such property, to pay the rate due in respect of the property in his or their occupation; and after the expiration of one calendar month from the time of giving such notice it shall be lawful to recover such last-mentioned rate from every such occupier, or, in his default, from any subsequent occupier, according to the provisions of the said Act; and every occupier so paying such rate may deduct from the rent he may be then or next thereafter liable to pay in respect of any such property the whole of any rate he may have paid in respect of the same property; and if rent sufficient to cover such rate be not then or do not thereafter become due from such occupier he shall be entitled to recover the same from such lessor of civil bill; and any covenant or agreement by which any such occupier shall have covenanted or agreed to forego the deduction of any such rate shall, so far as such rate is concerned, be of no effect.
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