Act for the improvement of the city of Edinburgh, and constructing new, and widening, altering, improving and diverting existing streets in the said city ; and for other purposes. 31st May 1867, 30 & 31 Victoriae, Cap. 44. With the incorporated clauses, notes, arrangement of sections, and analytical index.

Date:
1867
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Credit: Act for the improvement of the city of Edinburgh, and constructing new, and widening, altering, improving and diverting existing streets in the said city ; and for other purposes. 31st May 1867, 30 & 31 Victoriae, Cap. 44. With the incorporated clauses, notes, arrangement of sections, and analytical index. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    43. Deduction shall be allowed by the Trustees of the As-Provision sessnient for any Period during which any Lands or Heritages pro^per^y shall not be let or occupied for Three Months consecutively in let for less any One Year, and Owners who shall let for Rent or Hire Year Lands or Heritages for less than a Year shall themselves, as well as the Occupiers, be responsible for the whole of the said Assessment applicable to any Period less than a Yeai-, and the same may be recovered from such Owners or from such Occu- piers as shall be judged expedient: Provided always, that the Occupier of any Lands or Heritages let for a period less than a year, by whom the said Assessment shall be paid, sliall be en- titled to deduct from the Rent payable to the person by whom the said Lands or Heritages shall be so let, the amount of the said Assessment in excess of the proportion thereof appli- cable to the period of his occupancy. 44. The annual Value of the following Lands or Heritages Arable shall for the Assessment hereby authorised be held to be thef'^'^'l' now to be nearest aggregate Sum of Founds Sterling to One Fourth of valued, the annual Value thereof entered in the Valuation Roll ; viz. 1. All Lands and Premises used exclusively as a Canal or Basin of a Canal, or Towing-path for the same, or as a Railway constructed under the Powers of any Act of Parliament for public Conveyance, excepting the Sta- tions, Depots, and Buildings, which shall be assessable to the same Extent as other Lands and Premises within the City: 2. All the underground Gas and Water Pipes, or under- ground Works of any Gas or Water Company : 3. All Woodland, Arable, Meadow, or Pasture Ground, oi- other Ground used for Horticultural or Agricultural Purposes. 45. The Improvement Assessment shall be levied and col- Provision lected by the collector of the Police Assessment of the city, ^J'^^^^ in the same way and manner as the said Police Assessment m nt. is from time to time levied and collected, and shall be recover- able both from owners and occupiers in such and the like manner as the said police assessment is for the time being by-