Poor Relief Act 1691

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Poor Relief Act 1691 [a]
Act of Parliament
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Parliament of England
Long title An Act for the better explanation and supplying the defects of the former laws for the settlement of the poor. [b]
Citation 3 Will. & Mar. c. 11 [c]
Territorial extent  England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent 24 February 1692
Commencement 22 October 1691 [d]
Repealed1 October 1927
Other legislation
Amends Poor Relief Act 1662
Amended by
Repealed by Poor Law Act 1927
Relates to
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Poor Relief Act 1691 [a] (3 Will. & Mar. c. 11) was an act of the Parliament of England.

Contents

Provisions

Section 1 of the act revived the Poor Relief Act 1662 (14 Cha. 2. c. 12), as amended by the Administration of Intestates' Estate Act 1685 (1 Ja. 2. c. 17), from 1 March 1691.

An attorney's clerk, articled by indenture, was an apprentice within the meaning of section 8 of the act, and, as such, gained a settlement under this act in the parish in which he inhabited while serving under his articles. [1]

Subsequent developments

Sections 1 to 4 of the act (which are sections 2 to 5 in Ruffhead's Edition of the Statutes, by Serjeant Runnington, 1786) [2] were repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 59).

Section 12 of the act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 59).

Section 5 of the act (which is section 6 in Ruffhead's Edition) [3] was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 59).

Section 6 of the act (which is section 7 in Ruffhead's Edition) [4] was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 59).

Section 11 of the act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1887 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 59).

The whole act was repealed by section 245(1) of, and the eleventh schedule to, the Poor Law Act 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5. c. 14).

Notes

  1. 1 2 The citation of this act by this short title was authorised by section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the Short Titles Act 1896. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. ↑ These words are printed against this act in the second column of the first schedule to the Short Titles Act 1896, which is headed "Title".
  3. ↑ Also cited as 3 & 4 Will & Mary c 11: The Revised Reports. Sweet & Maxwell Limited. 1857. Volume 116. Pages 943 and 951.
  4. ↑ Start of session.

References

  1. ↑ St. Pancras v Clapham (1860) 2 El & El 742 (1860) 121 ER 278
  2. ↑ Council of Law Reporting. The Law Reports. The Public General Statutes, with a list of the local and private Acts, passed in the thirtieth and thirty-first years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. London. 1867. Page 628. Footnote 1. (See the note at the beginning of the Schedule to the Statute Law Revision Act 1867 for the meaning of "Ruffhead's Edition" in the footnotes).
  3. ↑ Council of Law Reporting. The Law Reports. The Public General Statutes, with a list of the local and private Acts, passed in the thirtieth and thirty-first years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. London. 1867. Page 628. Footnote 2.
  4. ↑ Council of Law Reporting. The Law Reports. The Public General Statutes, with a list of the local and private Acts, passed in the thirtieth and thirty-first years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. London. 1867. Page 628. Footnote 1.
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