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A.D. 1886.
84
County Councils.
[49 VIOT.]
PART IV.
RATING.
Sums to be raised by consolidated
rate.
Rate raise- able in several parishes.
Regulations as to the conolidated
rates.
Consolidation of Bates.
42. On and after the appointed day, all sums of money raiseable within the limits of any parish by a rate or contribution to a rate 5 shall be raised by the overseers of such parish by means of a rate, in this Act called a consolidated rate.
48. Where an area within which a fund may be raised by means of a rate or contribution to a rate is situate in more than one parish, the fund to be raised in such area shall be apportioned 10 amongst the several parishes or parts of parishes in the proportion directed by the Act or Acts under which the rato is leviable, or if no direction in respect of such proportion is contained in such Act or Acts, in proportion, so far as is practicable, to the total rateable value of the property situate in such parishes, or parts of 15 parishes, according as such value is ascertained for the purposes of the poor rate.
44. The overseers shall, within the prescribed limits of time, in every year make an estimate of all sums which they will require during the ensuing financial year to be raised for the purposes 20 of the parish of which they are overseers, and such sums shall be raised as a separate item of the consolidated rate, to be described as sums raised in respect of a parochial rate.
Every authority other than the overseers shall, within the pre- scribed limits of time in every year, serve on the overseers a precept 25 stating the contribution required by such authority, to be paid out of the consolidated rate during the ensuing financial year, and de- scribing where such contribution is leviable only within a part of a parish, the part of the parish within which the same is leviable.
The overseers shall, after the receipt of the precepts of the 80 several local authorities, make and assess on the basis of the poor rate, a consolidated rate for the ensuing financial year of such amount in the pound as will, in their opinion, be sufficient to raise the several amounts required to satisfy the sum required for parochial purposes, and the contributions to be made in pursuance 85 of the precepts of the several local authorities.
Where a rate or contribution to a rate is leviable only on part of a parish, or where a rate or contribution to a rate is leviable only in respect of certain property, or subject to certain exemp- tions or allowances, the overseers shall make and assess the same 40
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