§ Clause 22, page 20, line 19, leave out from ("shall") to end of subsection, and insert ("be defrayed in one or other of the following ways according as the county council, having regard to the benefit, if any, derived by various areas, think just and equitable, that is to say:—
- (a) as expenses for general county purposes; or
- (b) as expenses for special county purposes chargeable on such part or parts of the county within the catchment area as the council think fit; or
- (c) by apportioning it between and charging it on such portions of the catchment area and in such proportions as the council think fit and by the issue of precepts accordingly to rating authorities.")
§ Clause 22, page 20, line 29, leave out from ("shall") to end of subsection, and insert ("be defrayed in one or other of the following ways according as the council of the borough, having regard to the benefit, if any, derived by various areas, think just and equitable, that is to say:—
- (a) out of the general rate fund of the borough; or
- (b) out of the proceeds of an additional item of the general rate levied in such part of the borough within the catchment area as the council think fit; or
- (c) out of the proceeds of several additional items of the general rate levied at such differential rates and in such parts of the borough within the catchment area as the council think fit.")
§ Clause 23, page 20, line 36, after ("this") insert ("or any other")
§ Clause 23, page 20, line 42, after ("made") insert ("under and in accordance with this Act")
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Clause 23, page 21, line 11, at end insert:
("Provided that as regards any rates raised in order to defray expenses incurred, or charges in respect of liabilities incurred, before the commencement of this Act, the provisions as to the incidence of rates contained in Section thirty-eight of the Land Drainage Act, 1861, or in the case of rates raised under any local Act the corresponding provisions in that Act, shall have effect substitution for the provisions of this subsection.")
§ Clause 23, page 21, line 15, leave out from ("district") to ("in") in line 18.
§ Clause 23, page 21, leave out lines 24 to 29 and insert ("every rate made by a drainage board shall be")
§ Clause 23, page 21, line 33, leave out ("but") and insert ("and")
§ Clause 23, page 21, line 34, leave out ("per acre or")
§ Clause 23, page 21, line 36, leave out from the beginning to the end- of line 7 in page 22.
§ Clause 23, page 22, line 8, leave out ("an agricultural hereditament") and insert ("agricultural land")
§ Clause 23, page 22, line 9, leave out ("hereditament") and insert ("land")
§ Clause 23, page 22, line 10, leave out ("hereditament") and insert ("land")
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Clause 23, page 22, line 11, at end insert:
("Provided that where at the commencement of this Act a drainage board was levying drainage rates on the basis of acreage or partly on the basis of acreage and partly on the basis of annual value any rate made by that board at any time within the period of six months next following the commencement of this Act may be made on any basis on which it might have been made if this section had not been passed.")
§ Clause 23, page 22, line 13, leave out ("such a railway as is mentioned in subsection (3) of this section") and insert ("railway constructed under the powers of any Act of Parliament for public conveyance".)
§ Clause 23, page 22, line 15, after ("and") insert ("annual")
§ Clause 23, page 22, line 18, after ("or") insert ("annual")
§ Clause 23, page 22, line 21, after ("and") insert ("annual")
§ Clause 23, page 22, line 22, at end insert ("provided that the annual value of the 1164 adjoining land shall for the purposes of this subsection be deemed to be reduced by such proportion thereof, if any, as is in the opinion of the drainage board ascribable to buildings")
§ Clause 23, page 22, line 25, leave out from ("if") to ("make") in line 28, and insert ("having regard to all the circumstances of the case they think it is just so to do")
§ Clause 23, page 22, line 31, leave out from ("amount") to ("per") in line 32.
§ EARL DE LA WARRThese are all drafting Amendments.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.—(Earl De La Warr.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.