Metropolis Management Act 1855

CLXXI Power to Metropolitan Board, or any One authorized by them, to inspect Rates made for County or Part of County within the Metropolis.

The Clerk of the said Metropolitan Board, or any Person authorized by the said Board in this Behalf, may from Time to Time inspect any Rate made or to be made for any County any Part of which is within the Metropolis; and any Basis or Standard for the County Rate of any such County, and any Returns concerning all or any of the Parishes and Places, whether parochial or extra-parochial, in the Metropolis, delivered or to be delivered in pursuance of any Act relating to County Rates, and any Rate made by the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, and any Valuation on which the same is made, and may take Copies or Extracts from any such Rates, Basis or Standard, Returns or Valuation, without Payment of any Fee or Reward; and if any Person having the Custody of any such Rate, Basis or Standard, Return or Valuation, wilfully neglect or refuse to permit any such Clerk or Person authorized as aforesaid to inspect the same, or to take Copies or Extracts of or from the same, at all reasonable Times, he shall forfeit for every such Offence any Sum not exceeding Ten Pounds.