Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897

135 General assessments in districts other than burghs.

With respect to districts other than burghs, all charges and expenses incurred by or devolving on the local authority in executing this Act or any of the Acts hereby repealed, and not recovered as herein-before provided, may be defrayed out of an assesment (in this Act referred to as the public health general assessment) to be levied by the local authority upon all lands and heritages within the district or in the case of counties not divided into districts within the county, in the like manner as, but as a separate assessment from, the assessment herein-after mentioned in this section; that is to say, the said assessment shall be assessed, levied, and recovered in like manner and under like powers as—

• The assessment for the maintenance of roads under the provisions of the [41 & 42 Vict. c. 51.] Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Act, 1878, or, where there is no such assessment, by an assessment levied in like manner as an assessment might have been levied for the maintenance of roads under that Act.

Nothing contained in this Act shall affect or prejudice the provisions of the [59 & 60 Vict. c. 37.] Agricultural Rates, Congested Districts and Burgh Land Tax Relief (Scotland) Act, 1896.