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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tramways-act-1870/schedule-A/part-I",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/33-34/78",
  "legislation_title": "Tramways Act 1870",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tramways-act-1870",
  "path": "schedule/A/part/I",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Districts of Local Authorities.\nDescription of Local Authority of District set opposite its Name.\nThe Local Rate.\nEngland and Wales.\nThe city of London and the liberties thereof.\nThe mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London.\nThe consolidated sewers rate.\nThe metropolis (1)\nThe Metropolitan Board of Works.\nThe metropolitan consolidated rate.\nBoroughs (2)\nThe mayor, aldermen, and burgesses acting by the council.\nThe borough fund or other property applicable to the purposes of a borough rate, or the borough rate.\nAny place not included in the above descriptions, and under the jurisdiction of commissioners, trustees, or other persons intrusted by any local Act with powers of improving, cleansing, or paving any town.\nThe commissioners, trustees, or other persons intrusted by the local Act with powers of improving, cleansing, or paving the town.\nAny rate leviable by such commissioners, trustees, or other persons, or other funds applicable by them to the purposes of improving, cleansing, or paving the town.\nAny place not included in the above descriptions, and within the jurisdiction of local board constituted in pursuance of the Public Health Act 1848, and the Local Government Act 1858, or one of such Acts.\nThe local board\nGeneral district rate.\nNotes\n(1) “The metropolis” shall include all parishes and places in which the Metropolitan Board of Works; have power to levy a main drainage rate, except the city of London and the liberties thereof.\n(2) “Borough” shall mean any place for the time being subject to the Municipal Corporations Act 1835.\nDistricts of Local Authorities.\nDescription of Local Authority of District set opposite its Name.\nThe Local Rate.\nAny place or parish not within the above descriptions, and in which a rate is levied for the maintenance of the poor.\nThe vestry, select vestry, or other body of persons acting by virtue of any Act of Parliament, prescription, custom, or otherwise, as or instead of a vestry or select vestry.\nThe poor rate.\nScotland.\nPlaces within the jurisdiction of any town council, and not subject to the separate jurisdiction of police commissioners or trustees.\nThe town council.\nThe prison assessment or police assessment, as the local authorities shall resolve.\nIn places within the jurisdiction of police commissioners or trustees exercising the functions of police commissioners under any general or local Act.\nThe police commissioners or trustees.\nIn any parish or part thereof over which the jurisdiction of a town council or of police commissioners or trustees exercising the functions of police commissioners does not extend.\nThe road trustees having the management of any road on which a tramway is proposed to be constructed.\nThe tolls, duties, and assessments leviable by the road trustees.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. A Pts. I and II repealed (except as incorporated in, or otherwise applied by, any Act of Parliament or Provisional Order) (1.1.1993) by Transport and Works Act 1992 (c. 42), ss. 65(1)(b), 68(1), Sch. 4 Pt.I; S.I. 1992/2784, art. 2(b), Sch. 2 Pt.I"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1835 c. 76."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/33-34/78/schedule/A/part/I",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:54:37.315790+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."
}