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Poor Law (Justices Jurisdiction) Act 1849

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 3 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Anno Regni VICTORI, Britanniarum Regin,Duodecimo & Decimo Tertio. An Act to remove Doubts as to the Authority of Justices of the Peace to act in certain Matters relating to the Poor in Cities and Boroughs.

(12 & 13 Vict.) C A P. LXIV.

[28th July 1849]

'WHEREAS by the Act of the Forty-third Year of the Reign of QueenElizabeth , intituled An Act for the Relief of the Poor , Authority is given to Justices of the Peace for Counties to act in certain Matters relating to the Poor, and Doubts have been entertained whether the same Powers extend to Justices of the Peace having Jurisdiction within Cities and Boroughs, and it is expedient that such Doubts should be removed:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That, notwithstanding anything in the said Act contained, all Powers and Authorities which by the said Act may be exercised out of General or Quarter Sessions by Two or more Justices of any County, may be exercised within any City or Borough by any Two or more Justices of the Peace having Jurisdiction within such City or Borough respectively, as fully in all respects as by the Justices of the County in or for any Parish of such County.

S-II Acts of the Justices in any City or Borough confirmed.

II Acts of the Justices in any City or Borough confirmed.

II. And be it enacted, That nothing heretofore done in any City or Borough for the Purposes of the said Act by any Two or mere Justices having Jurisdiction in such City or Borough shall be deemed or taken to have been illegally or insufficiently done by reason only that neither of the said last-mentioned Justices was Mayor, Bailiff, or Head Officer of such City or Borough, but everything so done by such Two or more Justices, if otherwise lawful, shall...

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