{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/municipal-corporations-act-1882/section-150",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/municipal-corporations-act-1882/section-150.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/45-46/50",
  "legislation_title": "Municipal Corporations Act 1882",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/municipal-corporations-act-1882",
  "path": "section/150",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "150",
  "heading": "General exemption of quarter sessions boroughs from county rate.",
  "text": "(1) Where a borough has a separate court of quarter sessions, the justices of a county wherein the borough or any part thereof is situate shall not assess any hereditaments in the borough to any county rate; and, except as is expressly by this Act provided, every part of the borough shall be wholly free from contributing to any rate or assessment of any kind of and for that county.\n(2) But nothing in this section shall prevent the levy or collection of arrears of any county rate made before the grant of a separate court of quarter sessions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 150 repealed by Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), Sch. 11 Pt. IV but not so as to affect the areas which were rating areas at the commencement of that Act"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/45-46/50/section/150",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:41:32.008712+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}