Section 6 Saving old rights.

Neither this Act nor section twelve of the M1Poor Allotments Management Act, 1873, shall extend or be applicable to any lands with regard to which the provisions of the M2Allotments Act, 1832, have been put into operation; but all industrious cottagers of good character, being day labourers or journeymen, whether legally settled in any parish in which the Allotments Act, 1832, has been put into operation, or dwelling within its bounds or those of the adjoining parishes, or being poor persons in any such parishes, shall at all times be entitled to and enjoy the benefits, rights, and privileges created and conferred by the Allotments Act, 1832, in as full and ample a manner as they would have been entitled to and have enjoyed the same if they had been legally settled in the parish and this Act and section twelve of the Poor Allotments Management Act, 1873, had not been passed.