§ Mr. CHARLES BATHURSTasked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the Agricultural Rates Act was passed in 1896 and the Tithe Rent-Charge Rates Act in 1899; that both Acts were renewed by The Rates Act (1896) Continuance Act, 1901, and again until 1910 by The Rates Act (1896) Continuance Act, 1905; that last year the Schedule to the Expiring Laws Continuance Act, which contained the Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, expressly repealed the two above-mentioned Continuance Acts of 1901 and 1905 without renewing the Tithe Rent-Charge Rates Act, 1899; and whether, under these circumstances, the last-mentioned Act is still treated as being an operative Statute?
§ The PRIME MINISTERSection 4 of the Tithe Rent-Charge Rates Act. 1899, provides that the Act "shall apply to every rate which is made during the continuance of the said Agricultural Rates Act, 1896." Consequently the continuance of the Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, automatically continues the Tithe Rent-Charge Rates Act, 1899.