Poor Law Amendment Act 1867

Poor Law Amendment Act 1867 ^[1]

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to make the Poor Law Board permanent, and to provide sundry Amendments in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor.
Citation	30 & 31 Vict. c. 106
Dates
Royal assent	20 August 1867
Other legislation
Amended by	Lunacy Act 1890

The Poor Law Amendment Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 106) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, sponsored by Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook and supported by Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, Florence Nightingale and the Association for the Improvement of the Infirmaries of London Workhouses. ^[2]

References

1. This short title was conferred on this act by section 30 of this act.
2. Ayers, Gwendoline (1971). England's First State Hospitals. London: Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine. Retrieved 19 March 2017.

Sources and further reading

• Lely, John Mounteney. The Statutes of Practical Utility. (Chitty's Statutes). Fifth Edition. Sweet and Maxwell. Stevens and Sons. London. 1895. Volume 9. Pages 171 to 177.
• Paterson, William (ed). The Practical Statutes of the Session 1867. Horace Cox. London. 1867. Page 248.
• The Statutes: Revised Edition. 1878. Volume 15. Pages xvi and 535 to 541.
• Halsbury's Statutes of England. (The Complete Statutes of England). 1929. Volume 12. Pages 922, 961, 966, 986, 988, 996, 1024, 1031. Google Books.
• Encyclopedia of Local Government Law: Exclusive of the Metropolis. Butterworths. 1906. Volume 3. Pages 266 and 279 to 284. Google Books.
• Jennings, Ivor. The Poor Law Code. Charles Knight & Company, Limited. 1930. Page xxxiii. Google Books.
• Herbert Jenner Fust. Poor Law Orders. P S King & Son. 2nd Ed. 1907. pp 7, 59, 440, 630, 700, 753. Google Books.
• Mackay, Thomas. A History of the English Poor Law. P S King & Son. 1904. Volume 3. Page 493. Google Books.
• "The New Poor Law Act" in "New Statutes" (1867) 7 Law Students' Examination Chronicle 216
• Danby Palmer Fry. The Union Assessment Acts, 1862 to 1880, and the Rating Act, 1874: With Introduction, Notes, Circulars of the Poor Law Board and Local Government Board, Digest of Decided Cases, and Index. Sixth Edition. 1880. Pages 128 and 129.
• Lunacy Law. By Danby Palmer Fry. Edited by George Frederick Chambers. Third Edition. Knight & Co. London. 1890. Pages 71 and 116