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title: "Water Rate Definition Act 1885"
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# Water Rate Definition Act 1885

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Water Rate Definition Act 1885
1885 c.34
An Act to declare and explain the sixty–eighth section of the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847.
[31st July 1885]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :

## 1 Explanation of 10 & 11 Vict. c. 17. s. 68. {#section-1}

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 , 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.

## 2 Construction of Act. {#section-2}

The Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 , 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.

## 3 Short title. {#section-3}

This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Water Rate Definition Act, 1885.