Poor Law Amendment Act 1867
| Act of Parliament | |
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| 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. |
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| 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
[edit]- ^ This short title was conferred on this Act by section 30 of this Act.
- ^ Ayers, Gwendoline (1971). England's First State Hospitals. London: Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
Sources and further reading
[edit]- 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
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