City of London (Union of Parishes) Act 1907

32 As to contribution by Inner and Middle Temples. U.K.

The masters of the bench of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple and the masters of the bench of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple respectively shall as from the appointed day on demand pay to the Common Council their proportionate share of so much of the general rate as is levied by the Common Council for the purposes of the M1 City of London Police Acts 1839 1874 M2 1889 M3 and 1894 M4 which share shall bear the same proportion to the whole of that part of the general rate which is levied for the purposes aforesaid as the rateable value of the places known as the Inner and Middle Temples bears to the aggregate of the rateable values of those places and of the parish of the city of London and as from such day no rate shall be levied by the Common Council in either of the places known as the Inner and Middle Temples respectively for the purposes of the City of London Police Acts aforesaid Provided nevertheless that any rate made for the purposes of the City of London Police Acts aforesaid prior to the appointed day shall be recoverable by the Common Council as if this Act had not been passed.

Such respective masters shall pay to the Common Council at the times when and in the manner in which they are now payable to the mayor and commonalty and citizens of the city of London the contributions payable by them under the order of the Honourable Mr. Justice Farwell made on the seventeenth day of December one thousand nine hundred and three in the action in the High Court of Justice (1900 P. No. 1224) of which the short title is “Patchett and others v. the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London” and the said judgment shall be read and construed as if the Common Council were referred to therein instead of the mayor and commonalty and citizens of the city of London.

Marginal Citations

M1 1839 c. xciv.

M2 1874 c. ii.

M3 1889 c. cxxvii.

M4 1894 c. vii.