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Equalisation of Rates Act, 1894.
This Act was passed on the 25th August, 1894, and provides that the London County
Council shall in every year form a fund, called the Equalisation Fund, equal to a rate of 6d. in
the £, upon the rateable value of London, according to the Valuation lists as they stand on the
6th April in that year, and shall half-yearly determine the contribution from each Parish in
London to one-half of the Equalisation Fund, and the grant due from that one-half of the
Fund to each Parish by apportioning the amount of half the Equalisation Fund among
the Parishes in proportion to their rateable value according to the said Valuation lists, and by
apportioning the amount of half the Equalisation Fund among the Sanitary Districts in
proportion to their population; and where a Sanitary District comprises two or more Parishes,
by dividing that grant among those Parishes in proportion to their population, with this
exception,—that where the aggregate of the contributions from the Parishes in the District is
less than the grant apportioned to the District, the difference shall be paid out of the
Equalisation Fund to the Sanitary Authority of the District, and no payment towards any
equalisation charge shall be required from any Parish in the District.
Subject as aforesaid where the contribution from a Parish is less than the grant due,
the difference shall be paid out of the Equalisation Fund to the Sanitary Authority of the
District forming or comprising the Parish, but if it exceeds the grant due to the Parish, the
Council shall for the spacial purpose of meeting the excess, levy on the Parish a County
contribution (called the Equalisation Charge) as a separate item of the County rate.
Every sum paid to a Sanitary Authority is to be applied in defraying the expensed
incurred under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and so far as not required for that
purpose, those incurred in respect of lighting, and so far as not required for that purpose, those
incurred in respect of streets, and every Sanitary Authority to whom a sum is paid in any
year, shall within the prescribed time render to the Local Government Board a true account
in the prescribed form, showing for the twelve months preceding the said day the total