Amendment.

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Amend the Rag Flock Act, 1911.

WHEREAS doubts have arisen as to the meaning of

the phrase "flock manufactured from rags

used in the Rag Flock Act, 1911:

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Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent 5 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:

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1. For the removal of doubts it is hereby declared Interpreta10 that the expression "flock manufactured from rags tion of means flock which has been produced wholly or partly 1 & 2 Geo. 5. by tearing up woven or knitted or felted materials, c. 52. s. 1. whether old or new, but does not include flock obtained wholly in the processes of the scouring and finishing of

15 newly woven or newly knitted or newly felted fabrics.

2. This Act may be cited as the Rag Flock Act Short title (1911) Amendment Act, 1926, and this Act and the and conRag Flock Act, 1911, may be cited together as the struction. Rag Flock Acts, 1911 and 1926.

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Provide for the valuation of land and for the A.D. 1926. rating of land values and for other purposes connected therewith.

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. In every rating area, being a county borough or Provisions urban district, a rate (the amount of which shall be as to rating land values determined by the rating authority and the Ministry of (urban Health) shall be levied on the capital land value, as 10 hereinafter defined, of each hereditament (not being a park or open space to which the public has a right of access without payment) in the rating area:

Provided that if the person liable to pay such rate proves that the hereditament is genuinely and reason15 ably occupied for agricultural purposes, including market gardening, and that there is no effective demand for the same for building or industrial purposes, the amount of the total rate payable in respect of such hereditament shall not be greater than it would have been if this Act 20 had not passed.

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2. For the purposes of this Act the expression Definitions. capital land value" means the amount which the fee simple of the hereditament might be expected to realise if sold at the time of the valuation by a willing

improvements, and free from any burden, charge, incumA.D. 1926. seller, in the open market, apart from all buildings or brance or restriction other than a public right of way or of user or easement, or any right of common, and other than a burden, charge, incumbrance or restriction 5 imposed by law.

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3. The capital value of all land in these areas shall be ascertained by the national valuation department capital land for the purposes of this Act.

value.

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cation.

4. (1) This Act may be cited as the Rating of 10 Land Values Act (Urban Areas), 1926.

(2) This Act shall apply only to England and Wales and Northern

Ireland.

BILL

To provide for the valuation of land
and for the rating of land values
and for other purposes connected
therewith.

Captain Ernest Evans, Captain Garro-Jones,
Mr. Trevelyan Thomson,

Captain Wedgwood Benn, Mr. Livingstone, and
Sir Robert Hamilton.

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MEMORANDUM.

The Bill transfers the rating functions of parish councils to town councils and county councils (clause 1). Parish councils will continue to administer poor law and other parish matters, and will obtain the necessary sums by precept upon the rating authorities (clause 2).

Poor rate and rates leviable by reference to that rate are to be levied on the same basis as the public health general assessment, that is, one half on owners and one half on occupiers (clause 3).

Education authorities who at present obtain the sums required by them by precept on parish councils will issue their precept to town councils and county councils who will levy the education rate also on the same basis as the public health general assessment. That rate will be levied at a uniform rate throughout the portion of the education area within the area of the rating authority (clause 5).

The apportionment of the expenses of precepting authorities as between burghs and county areas will be on rateable valuation except for the first year in which year the apportionment will be on gross valuation that being the only valuation then available (clauses 2, 5 and 8).

All rates will be levied by rating authorities on a uniform basis as regards valuation subject to possible modifications in the case of rates levied under local Act. Clause 12 and the First Schedule prescribe a scale of deductions from gross valuation for the purpose of ascertaining the rateable valuation in the case of certain subjects. The rateable valuation will be shown in the Valuation Roll (clause 14). Those provisions involve the repeal of (1) section 37 of the Poor Law (Scotland) Act, 1845, under which deductions are allowed in respect of repairs, &c., for the purposes of poor and other parish rates and the education rate, and of (2) section 347 of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892, under which certain subjects obtain partial exemption from rates.