Poor Relief Act 1691

The Poor Relief Act 1691^[1]
Parliament of England
Long title	An Act for the better explanation and supplying the defects of the former laws for the settlement of the poor.^[2]
Citation	3 Will & Mary c 11^[3]

The Poor Relief Act 1691 (3 Will & Mary c 11) was an Act of the Parliament of England.

The whole Act was repealed by section 245(1) of, and Schedule 11 to, the Poor Law Act 1927.

Sections 1 to 4 (which are sections 2 to 5 in Ruffhead's Edition of the Statutes, by Serjeant Runnington, 1786)^[4] were repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867.

Section 5

This section (which is section 6 in Ruffhead's Edition)^[5] was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867.

Section 6

This section (which is section 7 in Ruffhead's Edition)^[6] was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867.

Section 8

An attorney's clerk, articled by indenture, was an apprentice within the meaning of section 8 of the 3 & 4 Will & Mary c 11, and, as such, gained a settlement under this Act in the parish in which he inhabited while serving under his articles.^[7]

Section 11

This section was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1887.

Section 12

This section was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867.

References

Halsbury's Statutes,

↑ The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Short Titles Act 1896. Due to the repeal of those provisions, it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
↑ These words are printed against this Act in the second column of Schedule 1 to the Short Titles Act 1896, which is headed "Title".
↑ Also cited as 3 & 4 Will & Mary c 11: The Revised Reports. Sweet & Maxwell Limited. 1857. Volume 116. Pages 943 and 951.
↑ Council of Law Reporting. The Law Reports. The Public General Statutes, with a list of the local and private Acts, passed in the thirtieth and thirty-first years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. London. 1867. Page 628. Footnote 1. (See the note at the beginning of the Schedule to the Statute Law Revision Act 1867 for the meaning of "Ruffhead's Edition" in the footnotes).
↑ Council of Law Reporting. The Law Reports. The Public General Statutes, with a list of the local and private Acts, passed in the thirtieth and thirty-first years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. London. 1867. Page 628. Footnote 2.
↑ Council of Law Reporting. The Law Reports. The Public General Statutes, with a list of the local and private Acts, passed in the thirtieth and thirty-first years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. London. 1867. Page 628. Footnote 1.
↑ St. Pancras v Clapham (1860) 2 El & El 742 (1860) 121 ER 278

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Poor Laws of the British Isles

Poor Laws by territory	England and Wales Scotland Ireland Isle of Man Channel Islands	Nantwich workhouse

Old Poor Law	Tudor Poor Laws Act for the Relief of the Poor 1597 Elizabethan Poor Law (1601) Poor Relief Act 1662 Poor Act 1697 Workhouse Test Act Relief of the Poor Act 1782 House of Correction Overseer of the poor Poor rate Poor relief

Relief systems	Indoor relief Outdoor relief Classification of the poor Speenhamland Labour Rate Roundsman Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor

New Poor Law	Royal commission (1832) Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 Poor Law (Scotland) Act 1845 Less eligibility Workhouse Workhouse test Board of guardians Outdoor Labour Test Order Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order Poor law unions Opposition Book of Murder Scottish poorhouses

Changes after 1834	Poor Law Commission Poor Law Board Local Government Board Andover workhouse scandal Huddersfield workhouse scandal Union Chargeability Act

Decline and abolition	Liberal welfare reforms Royal Commission (1905–09) Majority Report Minority Report Interwar poverty National Assistance Act 1948

Other	Historiography of the Poor Laws Timeline of the Poor Law system Poor Relief Act List of poor law unions in England List of poor law unions in Wales List of Irish Poor Law Unions

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