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Owners of houses not exceeding 10l. rent to be liable to water rates.
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72. The owners of all dwelling houses or parts of dwelling houses occupied as separate tenements, the annual value of which houses or tenements shall not exceed the sum of ten pounds, shall be liable to the payment of the rates instead of the occupiers thereof; and the powers and provisions herein or in the special Act contained for the recovery of rates from occupiers shall be construed to apply to the owners of such houses and tenements; and the person receiving the rents of any such house or tenements as aforesaid from the occupier thereof, on his own account, or as agent or receiver for any person interested therein, shall be deemed the owner of such house or tenement.
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