Distress for Rates Act 1960

The Distress for Rates Act 1960 (8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. 12) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated enactments relating to the recovery of rates in England and Wales.

Distress for Rates Act 1960

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to consolidate, with corrections and improvements made under the Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act 1949, certain enactments relating to the recovery of rates.
Citation	8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. 12
Territorial extent	England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent	22 March 1960
Commencement	1 April 1960
Repealed	1 April 1968
Other legislation
Amends	See § Repealed enactments
Repeals/revokes	See § Repealed enactments
Repealed by	General Rate Act 1967
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

Provisions

Repealed enactments

Section 15(1) of the act repealed 17 enactments, listed in the second schedule to the act.

Citation	Short title	Extent of repeal
43 Eliz. 1. c. 2	Poor Relief Act 1601	Sections two and seven.
17 Geo. 2. c. 38	Poor Relief Act 1743	Sections seven and eight.
54 Geo. 3. c. 170	Poor Relief Act 1814	In section twelve the words "rate for the relief of the poor" and the words "or highway cess".
2 & 3 Vict. c. 71	Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1839	Section fifty-one so far as it relates to rates within the meaning of this Act.
11 & 12 Vict. c. clxiii	City of London Sewers Act 1848	Sections one hundred and ninety-four and one hundred and ninety-six.
12 & 13 Vict. c. 14	Distress for Rates Act 1849	The whole act.
12 & 13 Vict. c. 64	Poor Law (Justices Jurisdiction) Act 1849	The whole act.
13 & 14 Vict. c. 57	Vestries Act 1850	In section seven, except as it applies to church rates, the words from "To prepare and issue the necessary process" to "such arrears".
15 & 16 Vict. c. 38	Justices Jurisdiction Act 1852	The whole act.
25 & 26 Vict. c. 102	Metropolis Management Amendment Act 1862	Section eighteen.
39 & 40 Vict. c. 61	Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act 1876	Sections thirty-one, forty-four and forty-five.
15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 90	Rating and Valuation Act 1925	Section fifty-nine so far as it relates to any document required or authorised to be sent or served under or for the purposes of this Act.
25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 46	Money Payments (Justices Procedure) Act 1935	Sections ten and eleven. In subsection (4) of section sixteen the words "(except subsection (2) of section eleven thereof)".
11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 26	Local Government Act 1948	Subsection (1) of section sixty-three so far as it relates to any document required or authorised to be sent or served under or for the purposes of this Act.
15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2. c. 55	Magistrates' Courts Act 1952	In section one hundred and two, subsection (2) so far as it applies to warrants of distress and warrants of commitment for rates within the meaning of this Act.
		In section one hundred and twenty-eight, subsections (1) and (2) so far as they relate to proceedings for the recovery of rates within the meaning of this Act.
		In the Fifth Schedule the amendment of the Money Payments (Justices Procedure) Act 1935.
4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 9	Rating and Valuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1955	In section thirteen, subsections (1), (2) and (3) and in subsection (4) the words "on the coming into operation of an order under this section" and the words from "and in section one" to the end of the section.
7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. xlix	City of London (Various Powers) Act 1959	Sections eleven to sixteen. The Schedule.

Subsequent developments

The whole act was repealed by section 117(1) of, and part I of the schedule 14 to, the General Rate Act 1967, which came into force on 1 April 1968.

External links

• Text of the Distress for Rates Act 1960 as originally enacted or made within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.