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Charges for improvements Charges for improvements

United Kingdom

And with regard to charges for improvements under this Act, be it enacted as follows:

  1. 49Commissioners to execute charge on completion of works, or of some part thereof.
  2. 50Expenses of application and certain contracts, may be included in charge.
  3. 51The charges to be by way of rentcharge created by absolute order;
  4. 52according to form in Schedule (B).
  5. 53Expenditure made under this Act may be charged under Acts of improvement companies.
  6. 54. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  7. 55Absolute order to be conclusive evidence of charge.
  8. 56Registry of rentcharges in Ireland, Middlesex, Yorkshire, and Scotland.
  9. 57Landowner may borrow the amount of certain public assessments, and charge same on inheritance;
  10. 58in form specified, together with costs of application.
  11. 59Grantee to have charge for principle money from time to time unrepaid, with priority over other incumbrances.
  12. 60Charges to be personal property, but money to be invested on real security may be invested on mortgages.
  13. 61. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  14. 62Proprietor of Scotch entailed estate may avail himself of Act, and rentcharge to be charge on such estate.
  15. 63Rentcharges to be recoverable as tithe rentcharges or feu duties.
  16. 64Interest on arrears of rentcharges.
  17. 65Assignment of charges.
  18. 66Tenants for life to keep down rentcharges.
  19. 67Tenant may deduct rentcharge, unless he has agreed to pay it.
  20. 68Rentcharges may be apportioned, or part of the land charged released therefrom.
  21. 69Form, registry, and effect of orders of apportionment and release.
  22. 70Charges apportioned &c. to be deemed original charges.
  23. 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Act repealed (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc.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