Water Rate Definition Act, 1885

Water Rate Definition Act 1885

CHAPTER 34

An Act to declare and explain the sixty-eighth section of the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 .

[31st July 1885.]

Whereas by an Act passed in the tenth and eleventh years of the reign of Her Majesty, chapter seventeen, intituled the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 , it was provoded that the water reat should be payable according to the annual value of the tenement supplied with water:

And whereas questions have arisen whether the above-recited provision may not in the metropolis mean other than the rateable value as settled from time to time by the local authority duly constituated:

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in the present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: