Poor_Relief_Act_1795

Poor Relief Act 1795

Poor Relief Act 1795

United Kingdom legislation

The Poor Relief Act 1795[1] (36 Geo. 3. c. 10) was an Act of Parliament passed by the Parliament of Great Britain.

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The Act enabled guardians of an incorporated district to raise and regulate the poor relief assessments in specified parishes.[2] The assessments would be made according to the price of wheat in Mark Lane, as the previous assessments (the Act claimed) "by reason of the late very great increase of the price of corn, and other necessary articles of life, [are] insufficient for the necessary relief and maintenance of the poor".[2] The Act also stipulated that "the sums to be assessed in any parish shall never exceed in any one year the amount of double the sum at present raised".[2]

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  1. [1]
    The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by the Short Titles Act 1896, section 1 and the first schedule. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. [2]
    George Nicholls, A History of the English Poor Law in Connection with the State of the Country and the Condition of the People, Volume II: A.D. 1714 to 1853 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898), p. 115.
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