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The Rating This Bill is designed to meet the difficulty raised by
of Hoardings.
the decision of the Courts of Justice, that a person
is not liable to rates for his advertising stations or hoardings
placed on a portion of premises which are being rebuilt, inasmuch
as the judges were unable to regard the nature of the interest as an
occupation, but only as a temporary holding for advertising.
This Bill provides that the owner of any land used, whether
temporarily or permanently, for the exhibition of advertisements,
or for the erection of a hoarding or structure to be used, or
capable of being used, for this purpose, but not otherwise occupied,
is to be rateable on the value derived or derivable from its
use. So also where land occupied for other purposes is used,
whether temporily or permanently, for the exhibition of advertisements,
&c., the rateable value is to be so estimated as to include
the increased value derived or derivable from this use.
Another provision of the Bill is that, where a Corporation,
Board, Vestry, Sanitary Authority, &c., grants under a statutory
power a licence for the temporary erection of a hoarding or other
structure upon any public highway, or upon any of its property,
it may include in this license a condition prohibiting the affixing
of any advertisement, or sanctioning it upon some payment.
In case this condition is not complied with the penalty may be
£5, and 40s. for every day during the continuance of the offence.
Any penalty so recovered is directed to be applied in aid of the
rate levied by the authority for the repair of the highway(Dropped].
BILLS IN PARLIAMENT (PRIVATE).
The Private Bills introduced into Parliament this session,
affecting this Parish, will be found dealt with in the Surveyors'
Report ou pages 10 to 15 and are as follows:—