An outline of English local government / by Edward Jenks.

  • Edward Jenks
Date:
1913
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: An outline of English local government / by Edward Jenks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    each rate the period which it is estimated to cover, are not bound by this statement, but may make another at any time. In practice they make a rate once a year, supplementing deficiencies by increasing the next year’s rate, and conversely. Before the rate can be enforced, it must be “allowed” by two or more Justices dwelling in or near the parish, but this duty of the Justices is ministerial only, and the allowance cannot be refused. The “ making ” of the rate is held to date from its allowance by the Justices, and im- mediately thereupon the overseers must give public notice of it. It is then open to any party aggrieved by the rate to appeal to Quarter Sessions against the rate as a whole or any item of it; but, subject to appeals, the overseers may proceed to collect the rate from the parties liable, and may “ levy ” or enforce their demands, if necessary, by summons, distress, and, ultimately, imprisonment. If the Justices perceive that a parish is not able to maintain its own poor, they may assess any other parishes in the same hundred, or, if the hundred is too poor, in the same county, or any of the inhabitants of such parishes, to a “ rate in aid ” of the poor parish. The person primarily responsible for the rates assessed upon a particular hereditament is the occu- pier thereof, i.e., the person entitled to exclusive possession. But it is only an occupation which may possibly be pecuniarily beneficial in its character1 that Allowance. Levy. Occupant primarily iiable for rates. 1 The decisions as to what is pecuniary benefit appear to be some- tj' what conflicting. A place used exclusively for divine worship or for li the “charitable” education ol the poor is not rateable. On the other ?! i hand, an elementary school and a hospital are.
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