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A.D. 1886.

Inspection

of rate.

Amendment of rate

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County Councile.

[49 VIOT.]

Any person aggrieved by such default may apply to a court of summary jurisdiction, and such court may, by the same or by any subsequent order or orders, remedy all or any of such defaults which may be proved to have occurred, and any order made by such court may be to the effect following; (that is to say,)

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In the first case, the order may make and assess the consolidated rate, or cause to be inserted therein any item in respect of which default has been made, and such order shall have the same effect as if the consolidated rate had been made, assessed, subscribed, [gs.] allowed, or the item inserted in manner directed by this Act.

In the second case, the order may appoint any person to levy the rate or instalment, or portion of an instalment, in which the default has been made, and may award reasonable compensation for his trouble to the person so appointed, to be levied as part of the rate or instalment, or portion of an instalment, and may make directions 15 as to the mode in which such person is to account for the rate or instalment, or portion of an instalment, so collected, and the persons to whom any balance remaining in his hands is to be paid, and any person so appointed shall in addition to any power conferred on him by this section have for the purposes of his appointment all the 20 powers of the overseers.

In the third case, the order may direct payment to be made by the person or persons having in his or their possession any money belonging to the parish, and any order so made may be enforced in the manner in which summary orders for payment of money are in 25 this Act directed to be enforced.

Any order made remedying any such default as aforesaid may award full costs to the person aggrieved by such default, and any costs so awarded shall be a separate charge upon the parish the officer of which has made default, and shall be defrayed accordingly. 30

80. Any perron interested in the consolidated rate made under this Act may inspect the same, and any estimate made previously thereto, and may take copies thereof, or extracts therefrom, without fee; and whosoever, having the oustody of such estimate or rate, refuses to allow or does not permit such inspection to be made, or such 85 copies or extracts to be taken, shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

81. The overseers may from time to time amend the consolidated rate made in pursuance of this Act, in manner following :

By inserting the name of any person who ought to have his name 40

inserted;

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