Poor Rate Exemption Act 1833

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1833 c. 30
Anno Regni GULIELMI IV. Britanniarum Regis,Tertio. An Act to exempt from Poor and Church Rates all Churches, Chapels, and other Places of Religious Worship.

(3 & 4 Will. 4) C A P. XXX.

[24th July 1833]

'WHEREAS it is expedient that Churches, Chapels, and other Places exclusively appropriated to public Religious Worship should be exempt from the Payment of Poor and Church Rates:' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the First Day of One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three no Person or Persons shall be rated or shall be liable to be rated, or to pay to any Church or Poor Rates or Cesses, for or in respect of any Churches, District Churches, Chapels, Meeting Houses, or Premises, or such Part thereof as shall be exclusively appropriated to public Religious Worship, and which (other than Churches, District Churches, and Episcopal Chapels of the Established Church) shall be duly certified for the Performance of such Religious Worship according to the Provision of any Act or Acts now in force: Provided always, that no Person or Personsshall be hereby exempted from any such Rates or Cesses for or in respect of any Parts of such Churches, District Churches, Chapels, Meeting Houses, or other Premises which are not so exclusively appropriated, and from which Parts not so exclusively appropriated such Person or Persons shall receive any Rent or Rents, or shall derive Profit or Advantage.

S-II Persons not liable because Part of Premises used for Schools.

II Persons not...

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