Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847

195 Rates to be apportioned on holder quitting.U.K.

When any rate has been made for a particular period, and the owner or occupier who is rated to such rate ceases to be the owner or occupier of the property in respect whereof he is rated before the end of such period, such owner or occupier shall be liable to pay a portion only of the rate payable for the whole of such period, proportionate to the time during which he continued to be owner or occupier; and in every such case, if any person, after the making of such rate, become the owner or occupier of any property so rated as aforesaid during part of the period for which such rate was made, such person shall pay a portion of such rate, proportioned to the time during which he held or occupied the property so rated, and the same shall be recovered from him in the same manner as if he had been originally rated for such property.