Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act 1882

Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act 1876 [a]
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to provide for the better arrangement of divided Parishes and other local areas, and to make sundry amendments in the Law relating to the Relief of the Poor in England.
Citation	39 & 40 Vict. c. 61
Territorial extent	United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent	15 August 1876
Commencement	15 August 1876 [b]
Repealed	1 April 1960
Other legislation
Amended by	Municipal Corporations Act 1882 Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act 1882 Poor Law Act 1927
Repealed by	Distress for Rates Act 1960
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act 1882 ^[c]

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to amend the Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act, 1876; and for other purposes.
Citation	45 & 46 Vict. c. 58
Territorial extent	United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent	18 August 1882
Commencement	18 August 1882 [d]
Repealed	1 June 1934
Other legislation
Amends	Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act 1876
Amended by	Statute Law Revision Act 1883 Poor Law Act 1927
Repealed by	Local Government Act 1933
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 58) was an act of Parliament in Britain which gave the Local Government Board increased powers relating to dissolving and creating poor law unions. ^[1]

It followed the similar Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 61).

Legacy

The whole of the 1876 act, except 1 to 9, 24, 29, 31, 37, 39, 42 and 45, and except section 19 from the beginning of the section to the words "to the contrary notwithstanding," and except the first paragraph of section 21 and of section 24, was repealed by section 245(1) of, and the eleventh schedule to, Poor Law Act 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5. c. 14).

Sections 8, 12, 13 and 14 of the 1882 act were repealed by section 245(1) of, and the eleventh schedule to, Poor Law Act 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5. c. 14).

Notes

1. Section 45.
2. The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793.
3. Section 1.
4. The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793.

References

1. "The history of the workhouse by Peter Higginbotham".