Bastardy (Ireland) Act 1863
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1863 c. 21 |
| Year | 1863 |
(26 & 27 Vict.) C A P. XXI.
[8th June 1863]
'WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Eighty-three, intituled Ireland,and to continue the Powers of the Commissioners: And whereas it is expedient to amend the Provisions of the said recited Act with respect to the Recovery of the Cost of the Maintenance of any illegitimate Child from its putative Father during the Time that such Child is in receipt of Relief from the Poor Rates and while under the Age of Fourteen:' Be it 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, as follows:
1 After passing of this Act, Sect. 10. of recited Act repealed.
1. From and after the passing of this Act the Tenth Section of the said recited Act shall be and the same is hereby repealed, except as to anything heretofore done under it, and except so far as may be necessary for the Purpose of supporting and continuing any Proceeding taken before the passing of this Act; and it is declared, that, notwithstanding such Repeal, any Decree made under the said Section by any Chairman of Quarter Sessions shall be as good and valid, and capable of being enforced as an ordinary Civil Bill Decree for a Debt, as if this Act had not passed.
2 Power to Board of Guardians to recover Cost of Maintenance of illegitimate Child from putative Father.
2. It shall be lawful for the Board of Guardians of any Union to recover, by Civil Bill Process at their own Suit, the Cost of the Maintenance of any illegitimate Child during the Time that such Child, while under the Age of Fourteen Years, has been or shall be in receipt of Relief from the Poor Rates since the passing of the said recited Act, from the putative Father of such Child: Provided always, that no Person shall be sued by the said Board of Guardians as aforesaid, save such Person only as the Mother of such illegitimate Child shall have stated to be the Father of such Child in an Affidavit in the Form to...
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