METROPOLIS GAS 63 & 64 Vict., Cap. 272. (PREPAY MENT METER) ACT, 1900. 63 & 64 Vict., Cap. 272. An Act for regulating the [Preamble.] 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Short title. Metropolis Gas (Prepayment Meter) Act 1900. 2. In this Act "The council" means the London County Council; The word "fittings" means pipes burners stoves and 66 The expression prepayment meter' means any Interpretation. 3. The Companies respectively shall not charge for Charges for any gas supplied through a prepayment meter any greater gas. charge rate or rent than the Companies are respectively entitied by law to charge for gas supplied to private consumers through any other kind of meter or by any other method of supply. Charges for 4. The Companies shall not charge for the hire of any prepayment meter and fittings to be used therewith hire of prepayany sum other than a sum of money calculated according ment meters. to the quantity of gas supplied through such prepayment meter and the maximum sum to be so charged shall be at the rate of tenpence per one thousand cubic feet supplied 63 & 64 Vict., Cap. 272. Revision of rate. Form of receipt. Maximum of meters without in manner aforesaid such sum to include the hire of one meter and the fittings used therewith. The said charge shall include the providing letting fixing repairing and maintenance of the meter and fittings and the cost of collection inspection and any other cost incurred by the Company in connexion with the meter and fittings. 5. The rate fixed by the last preceding section shall be open to revision by the Board of Trade in manner following (that is to say): If at any time after the expiration of seven years 6. The Company shall in collecting any money for gas supplied by means of prepayment meters give a receipt for the same in a form which shall show clearly the rate per one thousand cubic feet charged for gas and in addition the rate in respect of meters and fittings charged therewith under this Act. 7. The maximum charge for the hire of a prepayment charge for hire meter without fittings shall be at the rate of ten per centum per annum on the cost of the meter to the Companies respectively and the Companies Acts respectively applicable to ordinary meters shall so far as applicable apply within the Companies respective districts to prepayment fittings. Costs of Act. meters. 8. The costs charges and expenses preliminary to and of and incidental to the preparing applying for obtaining and passing of this Act shall be defrayed as payments for general county purposes within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1888. I Edw. 7, BURGH SEWERAGE, DRAINAGE, I Edw. 7, Cap. 24. An Act to amend the Law in regard to the Sewerage and Drainage and Water Supply of Burghs in Scotland. (a) [Introductory words.] PART I. [17th August 1901.] Security for sums borrowed for sewers, &c. 55 & 56 Vict. 63 & 64 Vict. 1. Where sums of money have been borrowed or are owing by the town council or commissioners of a burgh under any Act for purposes of sewerage and drainage or water supply, the town council as the authority under the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892 (herein-after referred to as the principal Act), as amended by the Town Councils C. 55. (Scotland) Act, 1900, shall provide the sums necessary for C. 49. repaying the principal and paying the interest of such sums out of the assessments herein-after mentioned, and the said sums shall constitute a charge on the said assessments, and the creditors shall have all the powers, rights, and remedies at the passing of this Act exerciseable by a lender of money on the security of the assessments originally assigned to them, and the said assessments hereinafter mentioned shall be deemed to be assigned to such creditors in security of their debt. 2. In any burgh, or in any special or separate drainage district formed therein under any Act, the expense incurred either before or after the passing of this Act for sewerage and drainage or water supply, as the case may be, within the same, or for the purposes thereof, and the sums necessary for repayment of any money borrowed therefor either before or after the passing of this Act, together with the interest thereof, shall be paid out of a sewer assessment or water assessment, as the case may be, which the town council of the burgh shall raise and levy on and within such burgh or (in the case of the sewer assessment) within such special or separate district, in the (a) Short Title, the Burgh Sewerage, Drainage, and Water Supply (Scotland) Act, 1901. See s. 10. Sewer and water assessments. 1 Edw. 7, Cap. 24. Transference of special districts. Amendment of 55 & 56 Vict. c. 55. same manner, and with the same remedies and modes of recovery and incidents, as are provided for the public health general assessment therein. Provided that where a special or separate drainage district has been formed under the provisions of any Act, and drainage works have been executed and are maintained therein, the lands and heritages situated within such special or separate district shall not be liable to assessment for the expense of sewerage and drainage works in other parts of the burgh: Provided also that for shops the water assessment shall be chargeable only on one-fourth of the rental of the premises, unless in special circumstances the town council see cause to charge the ordinary rates, and in that case it shall be lawful for any person who may think himself aggrieved to apply to the sheriff in the manner provided in the principal Act. The sewer assessment and the water assessment together shall not in any burgh or special or separate drainage district exceed the rate of four shillings in the pound: Provided that if the produce of a rate of four shillings in the pound in any burgh or special or separate drainage district shall not be sufficient to meet the expenditure (including the annual charge for interest and repayment of debt) bonâ fide incurred or contemplated within such burgh or special or separate district, it shall be lawful to increase such rate to such extent as may have been approved of by the Local Government Board for Scotland. Provided also, that it shall not be lawful to impose any rate in respect of the expenditure within any special or separate drainage district upon any premises without such district 3. All special or separate drainage districts that may have been formed in any burgh under any Public Health Act shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be deemed to be drainage districts under the principal Act, and any special or separate water supply districts which have been so formed shall cease to exist as such and shall be united to the other parts of the burgh for the purposes of water supply, and all rights and liabilities connected therewith: Provided that nothing herein contained shall affect any special water supply district partly within a county and partly within a burgh, or the provisions relating thereto of section eighty-one of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, as amended by section forty-four of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1894. 4. (1.) Section two hundred and thirty-three and section two hundred and thirty-six of the principal Act shall be read as if the sewer assessment herein-before mentioned were substituted for the sewer rates therein mentioned. (2.) Section two hundred and sixty-four of the principal Act shall be read as though for the words "portion of the "burgh general assessment applicable to the water sup"ply" the words "water assessment" were substituted. (3.) Section three hundred and forty-seven of the principal Act shall be read as though for the words 'burgh general assessment so far as it is applicable to water' the words "water assessment " were substituted. (4.) Section three hundred and sixty-three of the principal Act shall be read and have effect as if for the words said assessments" the words "sewer assessments" were substituted. 66 (5.) Notwithstanding anything contained in section two hundred and sixty-nine of the principal Act, the provisions of that Act with respect to supply of water shall apply in the case of any burgh which is supplied with water by the town council thereof under the powers of any local Act or Acts. 5. The powers and duties of the town council of any burgh, as the authority under the principal Act, with reference to sewerage and drainage or water supply shall extend to the whole area of the burgh as existing for the purposes of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, and the town council of any burgh, as the authority under the principal Act, in addition to the powers conferred upon them by the principal Act, or any other Act, shall, with reference to sewerage and drainage or water supply within such area, have the same rights, powers, and privileges as are conferred by the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, upon local authorities under that Act in districts other than burghs, with the exception of the rights, powers, and privileges conferred by sections one hundred and twentytwo and one hundred and thirty-one of the last-mentioned Act, to which sections the present section shall not apply, and in so far as necessary for giving effect to this enactment the last-mentioned Act and the Acts and parts of Acts incorporated therewith are, subject to the necessary modifications, incorporated with the principal Act. Provided that all costs and charges incurred by the town council in the exercise of such rights powers and privileges shall be provided for out of the sewer assessment or water assessment before mentioned, as the case may be, and that where it shall be necessary for the town council to borrow money for the purposes of sewerage and drainage or water supply they shall be entitled to do so on the security of the sewer assessment or water assessment I Edw. 7, Town council, powers of c. 38. |