Riot (Damages) Act 1886

5 Payment of compensation and expenses, and raising of money

(1) Where any compensation under this Act has been fixed by or recovered in an action against the police authority, that authority shall, on the prescribed conditions having been complied with, pay in the prescribed manner the amount of such compensation out of moneys held by them or their treasurer on account of their police force, and shall also pay out of the said moneys, all costs and expenses payable by them in or incidental to the execution of this Act; and the amount required to meet the said payments (in this Act referred to as riot expenses), shall be raised as part of the police rate.

(2) In the case of a county divided into districts within the meaning of the [3 & 4 Vict. c. 88.] County Police Act, 1840, as amended by section four of the [19 & 20 Vict. c. 69.] County and Borough Police Act, 1856, the riot expenses shall be defrayed by the district in, which, the injury, stealing, or destruction took place, as part of the local expenditure thereof.

(3) Where the police forces of a borough and a county have been consolidated, riot expenses shall be paid by the county and borough respectively in such proportions as may have been agreed upon by the police authority for the county and the council of the borough, and if no agreement is made, in such, proportions as a Secretary of State may from time to time determine ; and such agreement may from time to time be made in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as an agreement to consolidate the said police forces.

(4) Where the police rate is limited, an addition to that rate shall, if necessary, be levied for the purpose of raising the sum required to pay riot expenses under this Act.