Carlow was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) from 1801 to 1885.
The Criminal Lunatics (Ireland) Act 1838 was an act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, signed into law on 11 June 1838. It was one of the Lunacy (Ireland) Acts 1821 to 1890.
Lunacy Act is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to mental illness.
The Marriage of Lunatics Act 1811 was an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom implemented under the reign of George III of Great Britain. It was intended "to prevent the marriage of Lunatics" and make all marriages to Lunatics prior to and after the bill, whether diagnosed before marriage or otherwise, "null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever".
The Irish Lunatic Asylums for the Poor Act 1817 was an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom. It made Ireland the first nation in the world to require a national system of publicly funded asylums, before this expanded to the rest of the United Kingdom. It also constituted the first time that a national bureaucratic system had been established by colonial social welfare policy It led to the creation of a provincial asylum in each province.
The County Asylums Act 1828 was an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that addressed concerns with the administration of asylums and the slow creation of county asylums within Britain. It required magistrates to send annual records of admissions, discharges, and deaths to the Home Office; and allowed the Secretary of State to send a Visiting Justice to any county asylum, although the visitor couldn't intervene in how the asylum was run. It also allowed counties to borrow money to build an asylum, but it had to be paid back within 14 years of the initial loan. This was designed to incentivize counties to build asylums, but it did not make it compulsory, a continuation of the County Asylums Act 1808. It also imposed the requirement of a residential medical officer, whose permission was necessary to justify the restraint of a patient.
The Lunacy (Ireland) Act 1821 formed the basis of mental health law in Ireland from 1821 until 2015.
The Leases for Mills (Ireland) Act 1851 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The act extended the powers of various members of the clergy and landowners to authorise and lease their land to build watermills to Ireland, which was previously omitted. The act received royal assent on 11 April 1851.
The Metropolitan Sewers Act 1851 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The act extended and amended the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers Act 1848 and the Metropolitan Sewers Act 1849, which would have otherwise expired at the end of that session of Parliament, until the end of the session of Parliament underway on 7 August 1852. The Act was superseded by the further Metropolitan Sewers Acts in 1852, 1853, 1854 and 1855.
This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the regnal year 38 Geo. 3; the acts passed during the second session of the 18th Parliament of Great Britain, which met from 2 November 1797 until 29 June 1798.
