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Rating Committee.
1. To superintend all matters connected with the preparation,
levying, and collection of rates.
2. To consider the lists of arrears outstanding, and to decide upon
the respective sums to be discharged or carried forward.
3. To ascertain the defaulters upon the rates, and the deficiencies
in the collections, and to instruct the Collectors with regard thereto.
4. To sanction all applications by Rate Collectors for Committal
Warrants against rate defaulters.
5. To deal with applications to be allowed time for, or to be excused
from payment of rates.
6. To provide for the examination of the Collectors' accounts,
and for the same to be checked from time to time with the receipts and
the rate books.
7. To receive the monthly reports of the Rate Collectors as to
new property requiring to be brought into rating, and also of property
increased by the addition thereto or erection thereon of any building or
that is from any cause increased or reduced in value, and to take such
action thereon as may be necessary.
8. To prepare and to deposit with the Assessment Committee
once in every three months Provisional Lists, containing new properties
required to be brought into rating, or other properties which shall have
been from any cause increased or reduced in value.
9. To prepare from time to time the Supplemental Valuation
Lists, showing the alterations which shall have taken place in any of
the matters stated in the Valuation List, and in the event of no such
alterations having taken place to certify accordingly.
10. To prepare the Quinquennial Valuation Lists of rateable
hereditaments within the Borough for submission to the Assessment
Committee, and to arrange for the service of all notices connected
therewith, and to carry out all duties devolving upon Overseers.
11. To settle the rate of commission to be allowed to owners
under the " Poor Rate Assessment and Collection Act, 1869."
12. To deal with applications for reduction of assessments.
13. To consider from time to time matters relating to the valuation
of property in the Borough, referred by the Council or any Committee.
14. To prepare and publish lists of voters.
15. To prepare and publish the Jury list.