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Section 11 Extending powers and provisions of this Act to 1 & 2 W. 4. c. 42 and c. 59.

United Kingdom

And whereas by two Acts of the first and second years of the reign of His Present Majesty, intituled “An act to amend an “Act of the fifty-ninth year of His Majesty King George the “Third, for the relief and employment of the poor,” and the other intituled “An Act to enable the churchwardens and overseers to “enclose lands belonging to the crown, for the benefit of poor “persons residing in the parish in which such crown land is “situated,” power is given, under certain restrictions, to inclose any quantity not exceeding fifty acres of waste land and crown land respectively, for the use and benefit of the poor; be it further enacted, that in any parish where such inclosure shall exist or shall hereafter take place, or where land shall in any other manner be found appropriated for the general benefit of the poor of any parish, then and in such cases the powers and provisions of this Act shall be held to apply, in so far as the same may be found applicable.

Notes on the whole Act

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Act repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.III