Section 132.
1Where any property is transferred by or in pursuance of Part VII. of this Act from one authority to another authority or body—
(a)the property shall, except as otherwise expressly provided, be held by the authority or body to whom it is transferred subject to all debts and liabilities affecting the property;
(b)the latter authority or body shall hold the property for the estate, interest, and purposes, and subject to the covenants, conditions, and restrictions for and subject to which the property would have been held if this Act had not been passed, so far as they are not modified by or in pursuance of Part VII. of this Act;
(c)if and so far as the property consists of stock, the provisions of the Local Government (Stock Transfer) Act, 1895, shall apply for the purposes of any such transfer in like manner as if the transfer had been made by virtue of the Local Government Act, 1894, with this modification, that for the reference to a certificate of the clerk of the county council there shall be substituted a reference to a certificate of the Minister.
2(1)No election of guardians shall be held after the commencement of this Act and the term of office of guardians representing any area in a county borough or urban district or in the county of London and holding office at the commencement of this Act shall continue to the appointed day, and any casual vacancy occurring amongst those guardians may be filled by election by the board of guardians.
(2)Nothing in this Act shall affect the qualification of any person elected or nominated for election before the appointed day as a rural district councillor during the term of office for which he was so elected or nominated.
3(1)Every person who at the appointed day has, or is in the course of acquiring, a settlement in any parish by reason of residence, birth or other qualification therein, shall be deemed to have or to be in the course of acquiring a settlement in the county or county borough in which the parish is comprised.
(2)Every person who at the appointed day has, or is in the course of acquiring, a status of irremovability from a poor law union, shall be deemed to have or to be in the course of acquiring a status of irremovability from the county or county borough in which the poor law union is comprised, or if the poor law union is not wholly comprised within one county or county borough, from the county or county borough in which in comprised the part of the poor law union by reason of residence wherein the status of irremovability was, or was in the course of being, acquired.
(3)For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph, consecutive periods of residence in two or more places within any poor law union which is not wholly comprised within one county or county borough shall be aggregated and reckoned as continuous residence in that part of the poor law union in which the person so resided immediately before the appointed day.
4(1)All precepts for contributions issued before the appointed day and not discharged before that day shall be payable to the appropriate council by the rating authority.
(2)The accounts of all receipts and expenditure before the appointed day shall be audited, and disallowances, surcharges, and penalties recovered and enforced, and other consequential proceedings had, in like manner as nearly as may be as if this Act had not been passed, but as soon as practicable after the appointed day, and every authority, committee, or officer whose duty it is to make up any accounts, or to account for any portion of the receipts or expenditure in any account shall, until the audit is completed, be deemed for the purpose of such audit to continue in office, and be bound to perform the same duties and render the same accounts and be subject to the same liabilities as before the appointed day :
Provided that any sum certified to be due from any person by the district auditor at the audit shall be paid by that person to the appropriate council.
5Where the liabilities of an authority transferred to a council under Part VII. of this Act comprise a liability on account of money advanced by that council to the authority, the Minister may make such orders as he thinks fit for providing for the repayment of any debts incurred by the council for the purposes of those advances within a period fixed by the order, and, where the money advanced to the authority was money standing to the credit of any sinking fund or capital money applied under the [51 & 52 Vict. c. 41.] Local Government Acts, 1888 and [56 & 57 Vict. c. 73.] 1894, or either of them, for the repayment to the proper fund or account of the amount so advanced.
6As from the appointed day, any sum borrowed or reborrowed before that date by the council of a rural district on the credit of any rate out of which special expenses of the council are payable shall be deemed to have been borrowed also upon the credit of any moneys from time to time received by the council under this Act and applicable for the purposes for which the loan was contracted, and any mortgage for the purpose of securing the repayment of any sum so borrowed with interest thereon shall have effect accordingly.
7(1)All proceedings, legal and other, begun before the appointed day, may be carried on in like manner, as nearly as may be, as if this Act had not been passed, and any such proceeding may be amended in such manner as may appear necessary or proper in order to bring it into conformity with the provisions of this Act, and of any order or scheme made thereunder.
(2)Any cause of action by or against any authority which exists at the appointed day in relation to any functions, liabilities, debts or property transferred by this Act to a council shall not be prejudicially affected by the passing of this Act, but may be prosecuted and enforced by or against the council as successors of the authority from whom the transfer was made.
(3)All contracts, deeds, bonds, agreements, notices, and other instruments affecting any functions, liabilities, debts, or property transferred by this Act and subsisting at the appointed day, shall be of as full force and effect against or in favour of the council to whom the transfer was made, and may be enforced as fully and effectually as if, instead of the authority named in the instrument, the council to whom the transfer was made had been a party thereto.
8(1)Section one of the Local Authorities (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1923, which provides for the temporary extension of charges on the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund, shall as amended by any subsequent enactment have effect as if for references therein to the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, there were substituted references to the commencement of the financial year ending immediately before the appointed day.
(2)No expenditure incurred by any poor law authority in London in respect of the financial year ending immediately before the appointed day shall be repayable to the authority out of the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund, and as soon as practicable after the appointed day the fund shall be wound up and the balance standing to the credit of the fund shall be paid to the London County Council.
1(1)When a draft special list for a rating area has been deposited in accordance with the First Schedule to the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act 1928, then, without prejudice to the provisions of that Schedule as to the making of objections and applications, an objection to the list as deposited with, or as approved by, the assessment committee, may be lodged with that committee at any time before the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, by the persons and on the grounds hereinafter mentioned, and the provisions of the said Schedule relating to objections and to appeals shall apply thereto.
(2)Such an objection as aforesaid may be lodged—
(a)in the case of a hereditament in respect of which no claim for its inclusion in the special list has been made under the said Schedule, by the occupier or owner thereof on the ground that the hereditament ought to be inserted in the list; and
(b)in the case of a hereditament included in the special list, by the occupier or owner thereof on the ground that any value appearing in the list in respect of to hereditament is incorrect or unfair, and by the rating authority or, where he considers the value excessive, by the revenue officer on the same ground, notwithstanding that the value objected to may have been inserted in the list by or with the approval of that authority or officer.
A notice of objection on the ground that a hereditament ought to be inserted in the special list shall contain such particulars as would have been required by or under the said Schedule in the case of a claim for the inclusion of the hereditament in the draft special list before that list was deposited.
(3)Any amendment of a special list made in consequence of any such objection lodged as aforesaid which is not determined until after the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, shall be deemed to have been made upon that date.
(4)The gross value, if any, and the net annual value appearing in respect of any hereditament in a special list for any rating area outside the County of London approved in accordance with the First Schedule to the Eating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, shall be taken to be the gross value and the net annual value of that hereditament for the purposes of the current valuation list, and, accordingly, the assessment committee, upon approving the special list and thereafter upon making any amendment thereof, shall make or cause to be made in the valuation list the necessary amendments (including any necessary amendments of rateable values), and those amendments shall have effect as if made in consequence of a proposal for the amendment of the valuation list served upon the rating authority on or before the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine.
2(1)In respect of the period of twelve months beginning oh the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, the following provisions shall have effect in relation to hereditaments in the County of London,—
(a)as respects any hereditament which has become or ceased to be an agricultural, industrial, or freight transport hereditament at any time before the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, subsection (1) of section seventy of this Act shall have effect as if the words " in the course of any year " were omitted therefrom; and
(b)a provisional list made by virtue of the said subsection and sent to the assessment committee before the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty, or sent to them in compliance with a requisition served on the rating authority before that date, shall have effect as from the date on which the hereditament became or ceased to be an agricultural, industrial, or freight transport hereditament, as the case may be, or as from the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty nine, whichever is the later.
(2)If any person, being a person entitled to object to a provisional list, is aggrieved by any decision of the assessment committee with respect to such a provisional list as aforesaid sent to them before the first day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty, or sent to them in compliance with a requisition served on the rating authority before that date, or if any person by whom a requisition for such a list has been so served is aggrieved by the failure of the rating authority to comply therewith within six weeks after the service thereof, he may appeal to quarter sessions, and notwithstanding anything in section forty-two of the Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869, notice of any such appeal shall be given within twenty-eight days after the decision or failure, as the case may be, and any such appeal may be heard by quarter sessions at any date but, save as aforesaid, such appeals shall be made in like manner and the decision thereon shall have the like effect as in the case of appeals against decisions of the assessment committee on objections to new valuation lists.
(3)In the case of any hereditament included in a provisional list as respects which a right of appeal to quarter sessions is given by this paragraph so much of paragraph (10) of section forty-seven of the Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869, as provides for repayments and allowances if the value of the hereditament included in a provisional list is reduced when the next revision of the valuation list takes place shall not apply.
3For the purpose of totals of values in the county of London, any amendment made in a valuation list in force on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, on the ground that a hereditament was or was not on that date an agricultural, industrial, or freight transport hereditament shall, if made by means of a special list prepared in accordance with the Hating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, or by means of a provisional list sent to the assessment committee before the first day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty, or sent to them in compliance with a requisition served on the rating authority before that date, have effect notwithstanding anything in subsection (11) of section forty-seven of the Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869, as if it had been made by a supplemental fist coming into force on the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty.
4Where any proposal for the amendment of a valuation list or the making of any provisional fist involves a question whether a hereditament ought to be shown in any such list as having been on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, an agricultural, industrial, or freight transport hereditament, the revenue officer shall, save that he shall not be entitled to contend that the gross value or net annual value of a hereditament as a whole ought to be increased, have the like rights with respect to receiving copies of provisional lists and of proposals and notices in connection therewith, making and opposing objections thereto, and appearing upon any proceedings relating thereto, and with respect to appealing and receiving notices of and resisting appeals as if he were the occupier of the hereditament.
5In this Part of this Schedule the expression " revenue officer " has the same meaning as in the First Schedule to the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928.
6Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) of section one of the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, it shall not be necessary for an agricultural, industrial or freight transport hereditament to be distinguished as such in any supplemental list which will come into force in the County of London on the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty, and nothing contained in any such supplemental list shall operate to alter the valuation list in force immediately before the said date as respects any hereditament which in that valuation list is so distinguished as aforesaid.