Unemployed Workmen Act 1905

The Unemployed Workmen Act 1905 ^[1]

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to establish organisation with a view to the provision of Employment or Assistance for Unemployed Workmen in proper cases.
Citation	5 Edw. 7. c. 18
Dates
Royal assent	11 August 1905

The Unemployed Workmen Act 1905 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It established Distress Committees that gave out single grants to businesses or local authorities to allow them to hire more workers to decrease the number of people out of work. However, those with a criminal record were not given the opportunity to work the businesses being given grants.^{[ citation needed ]}

The whole Act was repealed by sections 12 and 137 of, and Part I of the Twelfth Schedule to, the Local Government Act 1929, subject to the savings in sections 12 and 137.

This Act was repealed in Ireland, by section 1 of, and Part 4 of the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision (Pre-1922) Act 2005, subject to section 2(1) of that Act.

See also

• List of legislation in the United Kingdom

References

• James Sutherland Cotton (ed). "Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905". The Practical Statutes of the Session 1905. (Paterson's Practical Statutes). Horace Cox. London. Page 87 et seq. Google
• J M Lely. "Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905". Statutes of Practical Utility Passed in 1905. Sweet and Maxwell. Stevens and Sons. 1905. Page 686 et seq. Google
• J M Lely and W H Aggs. "Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905". The Statutes of Practical Utility. Sweet and Maxwell. 1908. Volume 10. Page 686 et seq.
• W H Aggs. "The Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905". Chitty's Statutes of Practical Utility. Sixth Edition. 1913. Volume 15. Page 737 et seq.
• The Scots Statutes, 1905.
• The Public General Statutes Affecting Scotland. 1905. Page 57.
• Alex Glen, Randolph A Glen and G W Bailey. "The Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905". Glen's Law of Public Health and Local Government. Sweet & Maxwell. Chancery Lane, London. 1922. Volume 2. Page 2185 et seq.
• "The Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905" (1905) 69 The Justice of the Peace 505 (No 43, 28 October 1905)
• "Provision of Temporary Work for Unemployed Workmen" (1905) 49 The Solicitors' Journal 834 (28 October 1905)
• 5 Irish Jurist and Local Government Review 344 and 347

1. The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by section 7 of this Act.