Jurisdiction in Rating Act 1877
1877 c.11
An Act to make provision with respect to Judicial proceedings in certain cases relating to Rating.
[17th May 1877]
Short title “The Jurisdiction in Rating Act 1877” given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)
Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3
Certain words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (c. 56)
This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland

1 Judges may act in certain cases relating to rates.
No judge shall be incapable of acting in his judicial office in any proceeding, by reason of his being, as one of several ratepayers, or as one of any other class of persons, liable, in common with the others, to contribute to or to be benefited by any rate which may be increased, diminished, or in any way affected by such proceeding.

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S. 2 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1883 (c. 39)

3 Interpretation.
In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, the following words and expressions have the meanings herein-after respectively assigned to them; that is to say,
“Judge” means—
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As to Scotland, any Judge of the High Court of Session; and
As to the United Kingdom, any judge of the Supreme Court and any person acting as a judge of that court under section 38 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. .
“Rate” means any rate, tax, duty, or assessment, whether public, general or local, and also any fund formed from the proceeds of any such rate, tax, duty, or assessment, or applicable to the same, or like purposes to which any such rate, tax, duty, or assessment might be applied.
Definition repealed by Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 (c. 49), s. 226, Sch. 6
Words repealed by Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c. 23, SIF 38), Sch. 7
Words repealed (S.) (with re-enactment of the same words) so far as relating to Scotland by Court of Session Act 1988 (c. 36, SIF 36:1), s. 52 (2), Sch. 2 Pt. I Pt. II
Words in s. 3 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 148(1), Sch. 17 para. 10; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(e)