An Act for the more economical Recovery of Poor Rates and other Local Rates and Taxes.
[7th August 1862]
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Short title “The Poor Rates Recovery Act 1862” given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)
C2Act saved by General Rate Act 1967 (c. 9), s. 100(2)
C3Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)
C4Words of enactment repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)
C5This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland
Where any number of local rates and taxes, whether of the same or of different kinds, are due from the same person, the rates and taxes so due may be included in the same information, complaint, summons, order, warrant, or other document required by law to be laid before justices or to be issued by justices, and every such document as aforesaid shall, as respects each rate or tax comprised in it, be construed as a separate document, and its invalidity as respects any one rate or tax shall not affect its validity as respects any other rate or tax comprised in it:
No costs shall be allowed in respect of several informations, complaints, summonses, orders, warrants, or other such documents as aforesaid, in cases where, in the opinion of the justices or court having jurisdiction over the said costs, one information, complaint, summons, order, warrant, or other document as aforesaid might have sufficed, regard being had to the provisions of this Act.