§ MR. G. H. MORRELL (Oxon, Woodstock)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether a rate made by a Burial Board in a rural parish in England, inasmuch as under the Agricultural Ratings Act it is not a rate made by a spending authority, is a rate to which the provisions of that Act applies; and whether the occupier of agricultural land exempt under the Agricultural Ratings Act from half of the rates to which that Act applies is entitled to exemption from half of the Burial Rate?
THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARDWhen the expenses of a Burial Board are, in the case of a Rural District, paid out of the Poor Rate, or rate in the nature of a Poor Rate, the occupier of agricultural land is entitled to exemption from payment of one-half of the Burial Rate.