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The Rating
of Hoardings.
This Bill is re-introduced by Mr. BurdettCoutts
and is designed to meet the difficulty raised
by 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 temporarily 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 license 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. tor 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.
This Bill has now become passed.
School Board
for London
Elections.
This Bill was introduced by the Member for the
Dulwich Division, and provides for the abolition
of the existing divisions for election of Members of the