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Jurisdiction in Rating Act 1877 1877 c.11 An Act to make provision with respect to Judicial proceedings in certain cases relating to Rating. [17th May 1877]
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Jurisdiction in Rating Act 1877
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1 Judges may act in certain cases relating to rates.
No judge shall be incapable of acting in his judicial office in any proceeding, by reason of his being, as one of several ratepayers, or as one of any other class of persons, liable, in common with the others, to contribute to or to be benefited by any rate which may be increased, diminished, or in any way affected by such proceeding.
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In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, the following words and expressions have the meanings herein-after respectively assigned to them; that is to say, “Judge” means— . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . As to Scotland, any Judge of the High Court of Session; and As to the United Kingdom, any judge of the Supreme Court and any person acting as a judge of that court under section 38 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. . “Rate” means any rate, tax, duty, or assessment, whether public, general or local, and also any fund formed from the proceeds of any such rate, tax, duty, or assessment, or applicable to the same, or like purposes to which any such rate, tax, duty, or assessment might be applied.
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