{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-rate-definition-act-1885/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-rate-definition-act-1885/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/48-49/34",
  "legislation_title": "Water Rate Definition Act 1885",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-rate-definition-act-1885",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Explanation of 10 & 11 Vict. c. 17. s. 68.",
  "text": "The words “the annual value of the tenement supplied with water” in the sixty–eighth section of the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, shall, within the unions and parishes to which the Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869 , extends, mean the rateable value as settled from time to time by the local authority as duly constituted : Provided that where the water rate is chargeable on the annual value of a part only of any hereditament entered in the valuation list, such annual value shall be a fairly apportioned part of the rateable value of the whole tenement, ascertained as aforesaid, the apportionment in case of dispute to be determined in manner provided by the said section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "32 & 33 Vict. c. 67."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/48-49/34/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:38:29.456506+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."
}