The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-12 00:00:00

POOR REMOVAL.

A BILL, as AMENDED by the COMMITTEE, to
CONSOLIDATE and AMEND the LAWS RELAT-
ING to the REMOVAL of the POOR.
New title for third reading :—" An Act to amend the
- laws relating to the removal of the poor."
Sect. 1. Persons exempted from the liability to be
removed after five years' residence.—Whereas it is ex-
pedient that the laws relating to the removal of the
poor should be amended ; be it enacted that from and
after the passing of this Act, no person shall be re-
moved from any parish in which he shall have resided
for five years next before the application for a warrant
for his removal from such parish : provided always
that the time during which sucht persons shall be a
prisoner in a prison, or shall he sgirving her Majesty as
a soldier, marine, or sailor, or shall be confined in a
lunatic asylum, or house duly licensed, or hospital regis-
tered for the reception of lunatics, or as a patient in a
hospital, or during which any such person shall receive
relief from any parish, or shall be wholly or in part
maintained by any rate of subscription raised in a parish
in which he does not reside, not being a bond fide chari-
table gift, shall for all purposes be excluded in the com-
putation of time bereinbefore mentioned.
2. Widows.—No woman residing in any parish with
her husband at the time of his death shall, during.her
widowhood, be removable from such parish for twelve
calendar months next after his death. _ _

3. Children.—No child under the age of sixteen
years, whether legitimate or illegitimate, residing in any
parish with his or her father or mother, stepfather or
stepmother, or reputed father, shall be removed from
such parish in any case where such father, mother,
stepfather, stepmother, or reputed father, may not law-
fully be removed.
4. Sick Persons.—No warrant shall be granted for
the removal of any person becoming chargeable in re-
spect of relief made necessary by sickness or accident,
unless the justices granting the warrant shall state in
such warrant that they are satisfied that the sickness or
accident will produce permanent disability.
5. Settlement not to be gained by exemption from
removal herein provided.—Provided always, and be it,
enacted, that no person hereby exempted from liability
to he removed, shall, by such exemption, acquire any
settlement in any parish.
6. Penalty for procuring removals of poor persons
without warrants of Justices.—lf any officer of any
parish or union do, contrary to law, with intent to cause
and• poor person to become chargeable to any parish
to which such person was ' not then chargeable, con-
vey any 'poor person out of the parish for which such
officer acts, or cause or procure any poor person
to be so conveyed, or give directly or indirectly any
money, relief, or assistance, or afford or procure to
be afforded any facility for such conveyance, or make
any offer or promise, or use any threat to induce any
poor person to depart from such parish, and if, in con-
sequence of such conveyance or departure, any poor per-
son become chargeable to any parish to which he was
not then chargeable, such officer, on conviction thereof
before any two justices, shall forfeit and pay for every
such offence any sum not exceeding five pounds, nor less
than forty shillings.
7. Delivery of Paupers under orders of Removal.—
The delivery of any pauper under any warrant of
removal directed to the overseers of any parish, at the
workhouse of such parish, or of any union to which
such parish belongs, to any officer of such workhouse,
shall be deemed the delivery of such pauper to the over-
seers of such parish.
8. The Poor-law Amendment Act and this Act to be
construed as one Act.—The said Act of the fifth year of
the reign of King William the Fourth, " for the amend-
ment and better administration of the laws relating to
the poor in England and Wales," and all Acts to amend
and extend the same, and the present Act, except so far
as the provisions of any former Act are altered,
amended, or repealed by any subsequent Act,
shall be construed as one Act ; and all penal-
ties and forfeitures imposed under this Act shall be re-
coverable as penalties and forfeitures under the said Act
for the amendment of the laws relating to the poor.
9. Act limited to England.—This Act shall extend
only to England.
10. Act may be amended this session.— This Act may
be amended or repealed by any act to be passed in this
session of Parliament.