Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act 1882

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Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act 1876
Act of Parliament
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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
Dates
Royal assent 15 August 1876
Repealed1 January 1940 (partial)
Other legislation
Amended by Municipal Corporations Act 1882
Repealed by Distress for Rates Act 1960
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act 1882
Act of Parliament
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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
Dates
Royal assent 18 August 1882
Other legislation
Amended by Statute Law Revision Act 1883

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).

References

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