Vagrancy (Ireland) Act 1847
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1847 c. 84 |
| Year | 1847 |
(10 & 11 Vict.) C A P. LXXXIV.
[22d July 1847]
'WHEREAS it is expedient to make further Provision for the Punishment of Beggars and Vagrants and Persons offending against the Laws in force for the Relief of the destitute Poor inIreland ;' be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consentof the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That so much of an Act passed in the Second Year of Her present Majesty intituledAn Act for the more effectual Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland, as provides for the Punishment of Persons deserting and leaving their Wives or any Children whom such Persons may be liable to maintain, so that such Wives or Children should become destitute and be relieved in the Workhouse of a Union, shall be repealed.
II Punishment of Persons deserting or wilfully neglecting to maintain their Wives or Children.
II. And be it enacted, That every Person who shall desert or wilfully neglect to maintain his Wife or any Child whom he may be liable to maintain, so that such Wife or Child shall become destitute and be relieved in or out of the Workhouse of any Union inIreland , shall on Conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace be committed to the Common Gaol or House of Correction, there to be kept to hard Labour for any Time not exceeding Three Calendar Months.
III Punishment of Persons wandering abroad, or begging in public Places, &c.
III. And be it enacted, That every Person wandering abroad and begging, or placing himself in any public Place, Street, Highway, Court, or Passage to beg or gather Alms, or causing or procuring or encouraging any Child or Children so to do, and every Person who, having been resident in any Union inIreland , shall go from such Union to some other Union, or from one Electoral or Relief District to another Electoral or Relief District in Ireland , for the Purpose of obtaining Relief in such last-mentioned Union or District, shall on Conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace, if such Justice...
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