HC Deb 06 August 1913 vol 56 cc1702-3

(1) As from the fifteenth day of May in the year nineteen hundreed and fourteen the expenses declared by this Act to be chargeable to the assessment authorised to be levied by the district board under the Lunacy Acts and this Act shall be ascertained and apportioned within the lunacy district upon the landward parts of counties and upon burghs, respectively, as provided in Section fifty-four of the Act of 1857, as read with Section sixty-two of the Prisons (Scotland) Act, 1877, and shall be assessed, levied, and collected by the district board as provided in the said Sections.

(2) This Section shall apply to the case where the district board of control is the parish council, with the substitution of the parish for the landward parts of counties and for burghs, and with any other necessary variations; provided that the assessment hereby authorised shall be separately set forth and demanded in the demand note, and shall be levied upon the like valuation in all respects as the assessment hitherto leviable within the parish under the Lunacy Acts by the town or county councils, but shall be collected along with the poor rate, and with the same remedies and modes of recovery; and provided also that the consent of the Board shall be required to any assessment levied by the district board; and provided further that moneys levied and collected by a parish council acting as district board shall be kept separate and distinct from moneys levied and collected by the parish council for other purposes; and for purposes of audit the accounts of the parish council shall be deemed to include the accounts of such moneys and of the expenditure thereof.

Amendments made: In Sub-section (1), leave out the words "authorised to be levied by the district board under."

In Sub-section (1), after the word "shall" ["and this Act shall ascertained and apportioned"], insert the word "be."

In Sub-section (1), leave out the words "in Section fifty-four of the Act of 1857, as read with Section sixty-two of the Prisons (Scotland) Act, 1877, and shall be assessed, levied, and collected by the district board as provided in the said Sections," and insert instead thereof the words, "the Act of 1857, as amended by any subsequent Act, and shall be assessed, levied, and collected as provided in the said Acts."

In Sub-section (2), leave out the words "hereby authorised" ["provided that the assessment hereby authorised,"] and insert instead thereof the words "levied by a parish council acting as a district board."

In Sub-section (2), after the word "respects" ["the like valuation in all respects"], insert the words "and subject to the like deductions and exemptions."

In Sub-section (2), after the word "the" ["any assessment levied by the district board"], insert the words "parish council acting as a"—[Mr. McKinnon Wood.]