(Apportionment). -cont. of clerical errors. 30. An assessment committee may at any time cause to A.D. 1928. be corrected any clerical or arithmetical error in a valuation list, and the valuation list shall have effect accordingly, but if 2ND SCH. the correction is made in respect of any matter other than totals, 5 the committee shall before making the correction send notice Correction thereof to the occupier of the hereditament affected and to the rating authority of the rating area, and shall allow seven days to elapse for the making of any objection to the proposed correction. 38.-(1) Any rating authority or assessment committee may, Power of 10 if they think fit, employ a competent person to give advice or authorities assistance in connection with the valuation of any hereditaments to employ in their area, and any person so employed shall have power, at all reasonable times and after giving due notice, and on production, if so required, of authorisation in writing in that behalf 15 from the rating authority or committee authenticated by the signature of their clerk, to enter on, survey and value any hereditament in the area of the authority or committee which the authority or committee may direct him to survey and value. (2) If any person wilfully delays or obstructs any person 20 in the exercise of any of his powers under this section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds. valuers. be rendered invalid by 44. Any failure on the part of a rating authority or assess- Valuation ment committee to complete any proceedings with respect to list not to 25 the preparation of a valuation list within the time required by this Act, or the omission from a valuation list of any matters required by this Act to be included therein, shall not of itself render the list invalid. 58.—(1) The Minister of Health, after consultation with any 30 local authority or association of local authorities with whom consultation appears to him to be desirable, may by rules prescribe anything which by this Act is to be prescribed and the form of any rate, demand note, valuation list, statement, return or other document whatsoever which is required or authorised 35 to be used under or for the purposes of this Act. (2) Every rule made under this section shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament forthwith, and if an Address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent twenty-eight days on which that House 40 has sat after any such rule is laid before it praying that the rule may be annulled it shall thenceforth be void, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or the making of a new rule. certain failures or omissions. Power to make rules. BILL [AS AMENDED IN COMMITTEE] To make provision, with a view to the grant of Presented by Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Mr. Guinness Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 9 July 1928. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: 120, George Street, Edinburgh; York Street, Manchester; A BILL ΤΟ Amend the Rating (Scotland) Act, 1926, with A.D. 1928. respect to the ascertainment of the amount of the additional annual grant for Scotland under the Agricultural Rates Act, 1923, and the payments to rating authorities in respect of that grant and in certain other respects. BE E it enacted by the King'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, 5 as follows:— 1. Section thirteen of the Rating (Scotland) Act, Amendment 1926 (which contains provisions as to the agricultural of s. 13 of rates grant) shall have effect and be deemed always to 16 & 17 Geo. have had effect as if the following subsection were 10 substituted for subsection (3):: 15 66 (3) Except as otherwise provided in this section, nothing in this Act shall affect the provisions of section ten of the Act of 1923 relating to the ascertainment of the amount of the additional annual grant for Scotland under that Act, and the amount payable to rating authorities in respect of that grant. 5. c. 47. 2. Subsection (1) of section twenty-nine of the Amendment Rating (Scotland) Act, 1926 (which relates to interpre- of s. 29 of 20 tation) shall have effect as if the following words in t 16 & 17 Geo. 5. c. 47. "that in the case of lands and heritages with respect "to which there is total exemption from all rates the A.D. 1928. definition of "rateable value" were omitted "except "rateable value shall be treated as nil." Title and 3.-(1) This Act may be cited as the Rating (Scot- 5 land) Amendment Act, 1928, and the Rating (Scotland) Act, 1926, and this Act may be cited together as the Scotland only. Rating (Scotland) Acts, 1926 and 1928. (2) This Act shall apply to To amend the Rating (Scotland) Act, Ordered to be brought in by Secretary Sir John Gilmour, The Lord Advocate, Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 22 February 1928. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: 120, George Street, Edinburgh; York Street, Manchester; Synthetic Cream. A BILL ΤΟ Control the production, distribution and sale of A.D. 1928. reconstituted and synthetic cream. E it enacted by the King'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, 5 as follows: 10 15 20 1. (1) The Minister of Health shall forthwith make such general or special orders as are required for the following purposes : (a) For the registration with local authorities of all cream; (b) For the registration with local authorities of all (c) For requiring that all premises on which recon- Power of Minister of Health to make Orders. |