Metropolis Management Act 1855

CLXII Public Buildings and void Spaces now rateable (except Churches and Burial Grounds) to continue rateable.

Provided always, That all such Hospitals, public Schools, and other public Buildings, dead Walls, and void Spaces of Ground as are now by Law rateable to any Rate for the Costs and Charges of paving or repairing the Pavements within any parochial or other District, either separately or jointly with any other Object or Objects, (except only Places of Religious Worship, and Burial Grounds, or Places which have been used for Burial Grounds, and are not used for any other Purpose,) shall be rateable under this Act to the like Extent and for the like Objects or Purposes as they may now be rated, and the Rates to be made in respect of such Objects or Purposes shall be payable by the Persons now liable to pay the same, and be recoverable in like Manner, as any Rate to which such Buildings and Spaces of Ground are now rateable as aforesaid in respect of the like Objects or Purposes.