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6. The 1824 Act has long been obsolete. It dates back to an age when relief for the poor, and the money to pay for this, was organised on a parish basis. As indicated in the accompanying background note, the system of parish-run poor relief was abolished by the Local Government Act 1929. The poor law system was itself finally abolished by the National Assistance Act 1948. The finance for providing the income and other support previously provided by the parish is today drawn either from funds provided by central government or raised by local government from local taxation. 7. Accordingly the 1824 Act is obsolete and may now be repealed on that basis. Extent 8. The provisions proposed for repeal had no effect outside Suffolk. Consultation 9. HM Treasury, the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Department for Work and Pensions, Suffolk County Council and the Local Government Association have been consulted about these repeal proposals. (32-195-455) LAW/005/018/06 July 2009 132
Reference Extent of repeal or revocation ___________________________________________________________________ 5 Geo.4 c.xli (1824) The whole Act. (South Lynn Poor Relief Act) ___________________________________________________________________ 5 Geo.4 c.xli (1824) (South Lynn Poor Relief Act) 1. This note proposes the repeal of an obsolete 1824 Act passed to improve the system for raising the moneys needed to provide relief for the poor living in the parish of South Lynn, near King’s Lynn in Norfolk. 2. According to its long title, the purpose of the 1824 Act was: for the better levying and collecting the Rates for the Relief and Maintenance of the Poor of the Parish of South Lynn, otherwise All Saints, in the Borough of King’s Lynn in the County of Norfolk, by assessing the Owners of certain Messuages and other Property in the said Parish, instead of the Occupiers thereof; and also for erecting a Workhouse in the same Parish. 3. The preamble to the 1824 Act referred to the fact that the payment of rates for the relief of the poor in the Parish of South Lynn had been “greatly evaded, by reason that many of the Houses within the said Parish are let out in Lodgings, or in separate Apartments, and many others are of an inferior Description, and let at small annual or other Rents … and the Occupiers thereof having of late Years very commonly refused to pay any Rates whatever without legal Process”. 4. The 1824 Act provided as follows: (a) landlord or owner of property let to separate tenants or let at less than £8 per annum to be liable to pay the poor rates assessed on that property instead of the occupier; in cases of lettings as ready-furnished lodgings, the landlord would be deemed to be the occupier (sections 1 and 2) (b) goods and chattels of every person occupying any property in respect of which the landlord or owner was to be liable for the poor rates could be seized and sold to pay the rates; occupiers of lodgings entitled to deduct from their rent any rates paid by them (sections 3 and 4) (c) churchwardens and overseers of the poor empowered to sue any person made liable under this Act to pay poor rates (section 5) (d) parishioners of South Lynn to appoint a Committee of not less than 15 householders to value all property in the parish; appeals against valuation and rating (sections 6 to 8) 133
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