Charges for improvements Charges for improvements
United Kingdom
And with regard to charges for improvements under this Act, be it enacted as follows:
- 49Commissioners to execute charge on completion of works, or of some part thereof.
- 50Expenses of application and certain contracts, may be included in charge.
- 51The charges to be by way of rentcharge created by absolute order;
- 52according to form in Schedule (B).
- 53Expenditure made under this Act may be charged under Acts of improvement companies.
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- 55Absolute order to be conclusive evidence of charge.
- 56Registry of rentcharges in Ireland, Middlesex, Yorkshire, and Scotland.
- 57Landowner may borrow the amount of certain public assessments, and charge same on inheritance;
- 58in form specified, together with costs of application.
- 59Grantee to have charge for principle money from time to time unrepaid, with priority over other incumbrances.
- 60Charges to be personal property, but money to be invested on real security may be invested on mortgages.
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- 62Proprietor of Scotch entailed estate may avail himself of Act, and rentcharge to be charge on such estate.
- 63Rentcharges to be recoverable as tithe rentcharges or feu duties.
- 64Interest on arrears of rentcharges.
- 65Assignment of charges.
- 66Tenants for life to keep down rentcharges.
- 67Tenant may deduct rentcharge, unless he has agreed to pay it.
- 68Rentcharges may be apportioned, or part of the land charged released therefrom.
- 69Form, registry, and effect of orders of apportionment and release.
- 70Charges apportioned &c. to be deemed original charges.
- 71Orders may comprise several charges.
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
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Act repealed (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2