Poor Relief - Law Commission

Reference Extent of repeal or revocation
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Poor Law Board’s Provisional Orders The whole Act.
Confirmation Act 1869
(32 & 33 Vict. c.cxxiii)
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Poor Law Board’s Provisional Orders Confirmation Act 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c.cxxiii)
1. This note proposes the repeal of an obsolete 1869 Act passed to confirm
several provisional orders made to change the system of providing relief for the poor
in parts of Norfolk and Sussex.
2. According to its long title, the purpose of the 1869 Act was to:
confirm three Provisional Orders made by the Poor Law Board under the Poor
Law Amendment Act, 1867, with reference to the city of Chester, the
incorporated hundreds of Tunstead and Happing in the county of Norfolk, and
the parish of Woolavington in the county of Sussex.
3. Section 2 of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1867 (“the 1867 Act”) 160 provided a
means whereby a union of parishes (otherwise known as a “poor law union”) or an
individual parish could apply to the Poor Law Board (“the Board”) for an order to
repeal or amend any local Act that controlled or regulated the arrangements for poor
relief or for levying the poor rate in the area of that union or parish. 161 Section 3 of
the 1867 Act provided a means whereby an analogous application could be made to
the Board for an order to adjust the extent of (or to divide) a parish. The Guardians of
any union or parish would apply to the Board for an order repealing or amending the
local Act (or adjusting or dividing a parish). The Board, if it supported the application,
would issue the necessary Provisional Order. Such Provisional Order would have
effect only once it had been confirmed by Act of Parliament.
4. The purpose of the 1869 Act was therefore to confirm Provisional Orders made
by the Board pursuant to the 1867 Act. The 1869 Act confirmed three Orders.
Chester Incorporation Order
5. This Order has already been repealed. 162
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30 & 31 Vict. c.106. The Act was finally repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1950.
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Section 2 did not apply to parishes within London.
162
Chester Corporation Act 1932 (22 & 23 Geo.5 c.lxxxiv), s 18(1)(b); Cheshire County Council Act
1980 (c.xiii), s 112(1), Sch 3, Pt 1.
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