Poor Law Amendment Act 1868
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1868 c. 122 |
| Year | 1868 |
Poor Law Amendment Act, 1868
(31 & 32 Vict.) C A P CXXII.
An Act to make further Amendments in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor inEngland and Wales .
[31st July 1868]
W HEREAS it is desirable that sundry Amendments should be made in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor, and certain other Provisions enacted for facilitating the Administration of such Relief;
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, as follows:.
1 Regulations as to General Orders of the Poor Law Board.
1. The Poor Law Board shall cause a Copy of every General Rule, Order, or Regulation issued by them to be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as practicable after its Publication, but no Order of the said Board by which a District of Unions or Parishes and Unions shall have been or shall be formed shall be deemed to be a General Order within the Meaning of the Poor Law Board Act, 1847.
2 The sending of Copies of Orders to the Clerks of the Justices only to be required in certain Cases.
2. The said Board shall not be required to send Copies of any Orders issued by them to the Clerks to the Justices of the Petty Sessional Divisions, except such as relate to the Relief of the Poor, the Government and Management of Workhouses and their Inmates, and the Guidance and Regulation of Guardians and their Officers.
3 Repeal of Exception in Sect. 2. of 30 & 31 Vict. c. 106.
3. So much of the Second Section of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1867, as excepts the Unions and Parishes in the Metropolis from the Operation of that Section, is hereby repealed.
4 Consent of Guardians not required in certain Cases.
4. The Poor Law Board may exercise the Powers contained in the Thirty-second Section of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, with respect to any Union of Parishes formed under the Eighty-third Chapter of the Statute of the Twenty-second Year of KingGeorge the Third, and with respect to any Union governed by a Local Act of Parliament, where the Relief of the Poor is not wholly administered by One Board of Guardians, without such Concurrence of a Majority of not less than Two Thirds of the Guardians of such Union as is required in the said Section;and every single Parish in which the Provisions of the said Statute ofGeorge the Third shall have been adopted may be dealt with in like Manner as any Parish in which they shall not have been adopted, and the Powers conferred upon the said Board by the Forty-first Section of the said Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, in regard to Unions and Parishes governed by any Local Act of Parliament, may be exercised by such Board without the Consent of the Majority of the Owners and Ratepayers of Property as therein required, as and when such Board shall deem it expedient.
5 Superintendent Registrars and Registrars in temporary Districts.
5. All Superintendent Registrars and Registrars of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and Registrars of Marriages, in Temporary Districts formed under the Provisions of the Act Sixth and SeventhWilliam the Fourth, Chapter Eighty-six, shall be entitled to continue in Office in the event of such temporary Districts being dissolved, and the Parishes, Townships, and Places contained therein being formed into one and the same Union.
6 Poor Law Board may unite small Parishes for the Election of Guardians.
6. The said Board may, by Order under Seal, add any Parish in a Union, the Population of which Parish, according to the Census last declared, shall not exceed Three hundred, the annual rateable Value whereof shall not exceed the average rateable Value of the Parishes in the same Union according to the Valuation Lists in force for the Time being, to some adjoining Parish in the same Union for the Purpose of the Election of Guardians; and the Persons qualified to elect such Guardians in either Parish shall be qualified to vote at such Election for the Parishes so united.
7 Poor Law Board may appoint Officers when Guardians make default.
7. In case the Board of Guardians fail for Twenty-eight Days after Receipt of a Requisition of the Poor Law Board in that Behalf to appoint, either originally or on a Vacancy, any Officer whom they shall be lawfully required to appoint, the Poor Law Board may, at any Time after the Expiration of the said Term of Twenty-eight Days, if they think fit, by Order under their Seal, appoint a fit Person to be such Officer, and determine the Salary or Remuneration to be paid to him by such Guardians; and the Person so appointed shall recover such Salary or Remuneration by Action in a County or other Court of Law against such Guardians, and shall have all the same Powers, Rights, and Privileges, and shall discharge all the same Duties, and incur the same Responsibilities, as if the Appointment had been duly made by the said Guardians.
8 Extension of the Poor of the Power Law Board to order Works and Furniture for Workhouses.
8. The Power conferred upon the Poor Law Board by the Twenty-fifth Section of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, as extended by the Eighth Section of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1866, shall apply to the providing of proper Drainage, Sewers, Ventilation, Fixtures, Furniture, Surgical and Medical Appliances, and other Conveniences at any Workhouse.
9 Provision for Vacancies and Resignations of Managers under the Metropolitan Poor Act.
9. All the Provisions contained in the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1842, in respect of the Election, Qualification, Resignation, and the Acts of Guardians of a Union, and in respect of the Supply of Vacancies in the Board of Guardians, shall apply to the Members of the District Boards or Board formed or to be formed under the Authority of the Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, whether nominated or elective, or of this Act, and to the Persons nominated as Guardians by the Poor Law Board under the said Act of 1867; and so much of the Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, as requires Persons, other than Justices of the Peace, nominated by the Poor Law Board as Managers or Guardians, to be resident within the District, Union, or Parish respectively for which they may be nominated, shall be repealed.
10 Consent of Meeting of Guardians sufficient for the Formation of a School District.
10. Where the Consent of the Guardians of any Union or Parish is required to be given to the Formation of a School District, the Consent of the major Part of the Guardians assembled at one of their Ordinary Meetings, after Notice in Writing previously sent to every Member of the Board not less than Two Weeks previously specifying the Proposal for such Consent, shall be sufficient.
11 New Basis for the Contributions in School and other Districts.
11. From and after the Twenty-ninth Day ofSeptember next the Act of the Session held in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of Her present Majesty, Chapter Eleven, shall be repealed in respect of any Debts, Charges, and Liabilities to be incurred or created after that Day; and thenceforth all the Expenses and Charges which, according to the Provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1844, would be chargeable upon the Common Fund of any District formed or to be formed under that Act or under this Act, shall be borne by the several Unions or Parishes comprised in the District according to the annual rateable Value of the Property therein comprised, to be determined according to the Valuation Lists in force in such Unions, and according to the latest Poor Rate for the Time being for the Parishes not in Union, or, so far as respects any District wholly or partially within the Metropolis, as defined by the Metropolis Poor Act, 1867, on such other Basis as the Poor Law Board shall from Time to Time direct.
12 Provision for the Severance of a Parish from a Union in a School District, or the Addition of a Parish thereto.
12. In the Case of a Parish added to or taken from any Union comprised in a School District the Poor Law Board shall ascertain the proportionate Value of the Property and Amount of Obligations of such Parish, and of every other Parish or Union affected by the Change, and shall fix the Amount to be received or paid or secured to be paid by every such Parish or Union, or by the District, as the Case may require.
13 Guardians may pay the Cost of Idiots sent to Asylums for Idiots.
13. The Guardians of any Union or Parish may, with the Consent of the Poor Law Board, send an idiotic Pauper to an Asylum or Establishment for the Reception and Relief of Idiots maintained at the Charge of the County Rate or by public Subscription, and they may with the like Consent send any idiotic, imbecile, or insane Pauper who may lawfully be detained in a Workhouse to the Workhouse of any other Union or Parish, with the Consent of the Guardians of such...
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