Poor Rate Act 1801
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1801 c. 23 |
| Year | 1801 |
(41 Geo. 3) C A P. XXIII.
[18th April 1801]
'WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament, made and passed in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty KingGeorge the Second, intituled, An Act for remedying some Defect in the Act, made in the forty-third Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled, 'An Act for the Relief of the Poor ;' Power was given to Justices of the Peace, upon Appeals from Rates and Assessments, where they should see just Cause to give Relief, to amend the same in such Manner only as should be necessary for giving such Relief, without altering such Rates or Assessments with respect to other Persons mentioned in the same: And whereas the quashing or setting aside of Rates or Assessments made for the Relief of the Poor, is attended with great Inconvenience; and it hath happened, in consequence of the Rate or Assessment being quashed or set aside, or of Notice of Appeal against the whole Rate being given, the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor have not had any Money in hand for the Relief and Maintenance of the Poor: For Remedy whereof, may it please your Majesty that it may be enacted;' and be it enacted by the King'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 Authorityof the same, That, from and after the passing of this Act, upon all Appeals from any Rate or Assessment made for the Relief of the Poor of any Parish, Township, Vill, or Place, the Court of General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace shall, and such Court is hereby authorized and required (in all Cases where they shall see just Cause to give Relief) to amend such Rate or Assessment, either by inserting therein or striking out the Name or Names of any Person or Persons, or by altering the Sum or Sums therein charged on any Person or Persons, or in any other Manner which the said Court shall think necessary for giving such Relief, and without quashing or wholly setting aside such Rate or Assessment: Provided always, That if the said Court shall be of opinion that it is necessary, for the Purpose of giving Relief to the Person or Persons appealing, that the Rate or Assessment should be wholly quashed, then the said Court may quash the same; but nevertheless, all and every the Sum and Sums of Money in and by such Rate or Assessment charged on any Person or Persons, shall and may be levied and recovered by such Ways and Means, and in such and the same Manner, as if no Appeal had been made against such Rate or Assessment; and all and every the Sum and Sums of Money which any Person or Persons charged in such Rate or Assessment shall pay, or which shall be levied upon or recovered from him, her, or them, shall be deemed and taken as Payment, on account of the next effective Rate or Rates, Assessment or Assessments, which shall be made for the Relief of the Poor of the same Parish, Township, Vill, or Place.
II Notice of Appeal shall not prevent Distress being made for the Recovery of the Rate; but no greater Sum shall be proceeded for than that assessedin the last effective Rate.
II. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the passing of this Act, all and every the Sum and Sums of Money at which any Person or Persons is or are or shall be rated or assessed, in any Rate or Assessment made for the Relief of the Poor of any Parish, Township, Vill, or Place, shall and may be levied and recovered by Distress, and all other lawful Ways and Means, notwithstanding the Person or Persons so rated or assessed, or any other Person or Persons, shall have given Notice of Appeal from or against such Rate or Assessment, for any Cause whatsoever: Provided always, That if any Person, rated or assessed in any Rate or Assessment made for the Relief of the Poor, shall give such Notice of Appeal as herein-after mentioned *to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of any Parish, Township, Vill, or Place, or any two of them, then, from and after the giving of such Notice, and until the Appeal shall have been heard and determined, no Proceedings...
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