# Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847, Section 158: Commissioners to make a general sewer rate distinct from other rates.


Except where it shall be otherwise provided by the special Act, the commissioners shall make a sewer rate, to be called the general sewer rate, distinct from any other rate which they may be authorized to make under the special Act, and the money to be raised by such general sewer rates shall be applied in maintaining and clearing the sewers, and all other expences connected with such sewers not herein-before provided for, or which may not be fully defrayed by the special sewer rates, and for securing and paying off any monies which may be borrowed for the purpose aforesaid on security of the special sewer rates under the provisions of this or the special Act, or of any Act incorporated therewith, and the interest of such monies which the special sewer rates shall be insufficient to defray.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/34/section/158 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/towns-improvement-clauses-act-1847/section-158
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