Water Rate Definition Act, 1885

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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:

Explanation of 10 & 11 Vict. c.17. s. 68.

1. The words “the annual value of the tenement supplied with water” in the sixty-eighth section of the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 , shall, with the unions and parishes to which the Valuation of Propery (Metropolis) Act, 1869, extends, mean the rateable value as settled from time to time by the local authority as duly constituted: Provided that where the water rate is chargeable on the annual value of a part only of any hereditament entered in the valuation list, such annual value shall be a fairly apportioned part of the rateable value of the whole tenement, ascertained as aforesaid, the apportionment in case of dispute to be determined in manner provided by the said section.

Construction of Act.

The Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 , and this Act shall, for the purposes of this Act, be construed together as one Act, and the provisions of this Act shall to that extent be held to repeal and supersede such of the provisions of that Act as are inconsistent with this Act.

Short title.

This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Water Rate Definition Act, 1885.