1Explanation of 10 & 11 Vict. c. 17. s. 68.U.K.
The words “the annual value of the tenement supplied with water” in the sixty–eighth section of the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, shall, within the unions and parishes to which the Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869 M1, extends, mean the rateable value as settled from time to time by the local authority as duly constituted : Provided that where the water rate is chargeable on the annual value of a part only of any hereditament entered in the valuation list, such annual value shall be a fairly apportioned part of the rateable value of the whole tenement, ascertained as aforesaid, the apportionment in case of dispute to be determined in manner provided by the said section.
Marginal Citations
M132 & 33 Vict. c. 67.
2Construction of Act.U.K.
The Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 M2, and this Act shall, for the purposes of this Act, be construed together as one Act, and the provisions of this Act shall to that extent be held to repeal and supersede such of the provisions of that Act as are inconsistent with this Act.
Marginal Citations
M210 & 11 Vict. c. 17.
3Short title.U.K.
This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Water Rate Definition Act, 1885.