Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1896

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Provision with respect to mortgages of rates by town commissioners.

17 & 18 Vict. c. 103.

16.—(1) Town commissioners under the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, or any Act incorporating that Act in whole or in part, may, when assessing any rate leviable throughout the whole of their district, divide the rate so as to show the respective portions thereof required for sanitary purposes within the meaning of section two hundred and twenty-seven of the principal Act, and for other purposes.

(2) Mortgages of rates made by town commissioners under section two hundred and thirty-seven of the principal Act for such other purposes shall be charged upon the portion only of such rates required for those purposes.

(3) Mortgages of rates made before the passing of this Act by town commissioners under the said section two hundred and thirty-seven for such other purposes shall not be deemed invalid by reason of such mortgages including any portion of such rates required for sanitary purposes only.

Miscellaneous.