VALUATION Аст, 1854. Commissioner of Valuation shall cause a revision to be made of such tenements, and transmit a list to the Guardians of the union and to the Treasurer of the county, &c. 17 VIC. c. 8, 5. On or before the first day of Summer Assizes AMENDMENT to be held for any county next after the receipt of such lists for the several poor law unions in such county, the Commissioner of Valuation shall cause a revision to be made of the valuation of the tenements in the several townlands and parishes within such county, or any barony or poor law union therein, and appoint fit and proper persons to revise the valuation of the tenements so requiring revision, and the person making such revision shall have regard to the total valuation of the lands, independently of buildings, within each respective townland or other denomination, as finally decided on by the Commissioner of Valuation, or by the Court at any General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace, under the provisions of the firstly herein-before mentioned Act, and shall not increase or lessen such total valuation except in cases in which a clerical error shall have been discovered, when the same may be rectified; and as soon as the said revision shall have been completed the Commissioner of Valuation shall make out and prepare a revised list or lists of the valuation of the rateable hereditaments and tenements within such county or any barony thereof, or within such poor law union, or a list of the tenements, so revised as aforesaid, and shall sign the same, and transmit printed or written copies of such list or lists, so signed by him, in the form set forth in the schedule to the firstly herein-before mentioned Act annexed, to the Guardians of each union, and to the Town Council of any borough within which any tenements contained in any such list are situate, and likewise to the Treasurer of the county; and the Clerk of such union shall forthwith make every such list public by all and every the same ways and means as are directed by section twenty-eight of such Act concerning the lists in such section mentioned. 15 & 16 Vic. 6. The firstly herein-before mentioned Act and this Act to be this Act shall be construed together as one Act. c. 63, and b This appears to be an error, § 18 is no doubt intended. 19 & 20 VICT. CAP. 63. 19 & 20 VIC. c. 63, GENERAL VALUATION An Act to amend the Acts relating to Grand AMENDMENT Juries in Ireland. [21st July, 1856.] Аст, 1856. [THIS Act after reciting the General Valuation Acts of 1852, 1853, and 1854, and enacting certain provisions regarding the applotment of Grand Jury cess according to that valuation, and also for its collection, provides that rates shall not be affected by any omission of the Clerk of the Union to give the notices of valuation or revision required by the General Valuation Act or by error in the valuation or revision. The following is the section containing this provision:-] be affected by valuation. 13. No rate or assessment made or here- Rates not to after to be made shall be in any matter errors, &c., in affected by reason of any omission of the Clerk of any Board of Guardians or other person appointed in his place, to give or post the notices of the making of such valuation or revision required to be posted or given by said several recited statutes or any of them; or by reason of any error, omission, misdescription, or variance in the making of such valuation or revision; and it shall not be necessary in any suit or other proceeding for recovery of or in relation to any such rate or assessment, or any part thereof, or in relation to such valuation or revision thereof, to give evidence of the performance of any of the preliminaries required in the making of such valuation or revision. 15 & 16 Vic. c. 63, § 18 (p. 264), § 21 (p. 266). 23 VIC. c. 4, VALUATION 23 VICT. CAP. 4. REVISION An Act to enable the Commissioners of Her c. 63. c. 8. ACT, 1860. Majesty's Treasury to defray One Moiety of the [23rd March, 1860.] WHEREAS the tenement valuation of rateable property in Ireland, made and revised in pursuance 15 & 16 Vic. of the provisions of an Act passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty, chapter sixty-three, and of an Act passed in the 17 & 18 Vic. Seventeenth year of the reign of Her Majesty, chapter eight, is now used as the basis of public general as well as local taxation in Ireland, and it is expedient to provide that one moiety of the expense of the annual revision of such valuation shall be defrayed out of the public funds, and otherwise to amend the laws relating thereto : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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, as follows: Commence §1. This Act shall commence and take effect ment of Act. from and after the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty. Power to Treasury to advance money as they may think fit towards the expense of annual revision of the 2. From and after the commencement of this Act it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of such sums of Her Majesty's Treasury and they are hereby authorized to order and direct that such sum or sums of money as shall be required for defraying the costs and expenses of and incident to the annual revision of the tenement valuation of ratevaluation of able property in Ireland, made or to be made under the provisions of the Acts relating to the valuation of rateable property in Ireland, or to be incurred by the Commissioner of Valuation in carrying out the provisions of this Act, shall be rateable property in Ireland. VALUATION advanced quarterly out of the Consolidated Fund 23 Vic. c. 4, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and REVISION Ireland. ACT, 1860. &c., to con 3. The Commissioner of Valuation, and all Commisother persons heretofore appointed or acting under gioner of the provisions of the said recited Acts, or either Valuation, of them, shall, and they are hereby respectively tinue to act. authorized and required to continue to discharge and execute their several duties and offices for the purpose of carrying the said recited Acts and this Act into execution, without any further or other appointment thereto, until the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall otherwise direct. Treasury to missioner of 4. Upon the death, resignation, or removal of Power to such Commissioner of Valuation, or any other appoint ComCommissioner of Valuation hereafter to be ap- Valuation, pointed, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners &c. of Her Majesty's Treasury from time to time to nominate and appoint one other fit and proper person to be Commissioner of Valuation for the several counties in Ireland, who shall hold such office during the will and pleasure of the said Commissioners, and who shall carry into effect the provisions of the said recited Acts and of this Act, at such times, and in such manner, and under such regulations as such Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall order or appoint. sioner of Surveyors, 5. It shall be lawful for any such Commissioner Commisof Valuation continued or appointed under this valuation to Act, with the approval of the Commissioners of appoint Her Majesty's Treasury, upon the death, resigna- Writing tion, or removal of any of the other persons afore- Clerks, &c. said continued by this Act, to appoint from time to time such person or persons as he may deem necessary to assist him in carrying into effect the provisions of the said Acts, and from time to time to remove any such person or persons, and to appoint any other person or persons to act in the place and stead of the person or persons so removed; and such person or persons so continued or to be appointed shall be entitled to receive such salary, with such allowances for travelling, hotel, and other expenses, not exceeding the salary and VALUATION REVISION Аст, 23 Vic. c. 4, allowances fixed by the said first-recited Act, as may from time to time be fixed by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury; and on the discontinuance of his or their office or offices, or removal therefrom, such person or persons shall be entitled to such superannuation, pension, or allowance as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may determine. Valuation in the form annexed to this Act. 6. The lists of valuation, and of every revision lists may be thereof, which the said Commissioner of Valuation is by the said Acts, or either of them, required to make out and transmit to the Guardians of any union, or to the Town Council of any borough, or to the Treasurer of any county, shall be in the form specified in the schedule to this Act annexed", or in such other form as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall from time to time approve of; and such lists may be wholly or in part in print or writing; and no alteration shall be made in any such list or lists, or in the name of any occupier or lessor named therein, save by the Commissioner of Valuation, or by some person duly authorized by him for that purpose, or by the order of a Court of General or Quarter Sessions upon appeal, or other Court of competent jurisdiction: Provided, that for the purpose of any poor rate, the Guardians of any union may make such departure, not affecting value, from the particulars contained in the said lists, as may be necessary, at the time of making the rate, to enable them to make a valid rating under the laws in force for the relief of the destitute poor in Ireland, subject to such appeal as is now by law provided, and any such departure shall be forthwith reported by the Guardians to the Commissioner of Valuation. As to the valuation of mills, &c. 7. In making the valuation of any mill or manufactory, or building erected or used for any such purpose, the Commissioner of Valuation shall in each case value the water or other motive power thereof, but shall not take into account a See schedule (p. 296). |