Sporting Lands Rating (Scotland) Act 1886
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1886 c. 15 |
| Year | 1886 |
Sporting Lands Rating (Scotland) Act, 1886
(49 & 50 Vict.) CHAPTER 15.
An Act to amend the Law as to the Rating of Lands occupied for Sporting purposes in Scotland.
[10th May 1886]
Be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:
1 Commencement and extent of Act.
1. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, and shall apply to Scotland only.
2 Interpretation clause.
2. The expression ‘the Valuation Acts’ shall mean the Act seventeenth and eighteenth Victoria, chapter ninety-one, and any Acts amending the same.
The expression ‘the assessor’ shall mean the assessor appointed and acting under the Valuation Acts.
The expression ‘the Poor Law Act’ shall mean the Act eighth and ninth Victoria, chapter eighty-three.
3 Construction of Act.
3. This Act shall be read and construed along with the Valuation Acts and the Poor Law Act.
4 Amendment of 17 & 18 Vict. c. 91. s. 42.
4. The forty-second section of the Act seventeenth and eighteenth Victoria, chapter ninety-one, shall be read and construed as if the words ‘where such shootings or deer forests are actually let’ were not therein contained.
5 Amendment of 8 & 9 Vict. c. 83. s. 1.
5. The first section of the Poor Law Act shall be read and construed as if the definition of ‘lands and heritages’ therein expressly referred to and included shootings and deer forests.
6 Valuation of shootings and deer forests.
6. In order to ascertain and assess under the Valuation Acts the yearly value of shootings and deer forests in Scotland, it shall be the duty of the assessor to enter separately for each parish, and in respect of each proprietor therein, the yearly value of the shootings over the lands and of the deer forests belonging, to him in so far as situated within such parish.
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