An Act for the better explanation and supplying the defects of the former laws for the settlement of the poor.[2]
Citation
3 Will. & Mar. c. 11[3]
Dates
Royal assent
24 February 1692
Other legislation
Repealed by
Poor Law Act 1927
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
The Poor Relief Act 1691 (3 Will. & Mar. 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The whole Act was repealed by section 245(1) of, and Schedule 11 to, the Poor Law Act 1927.
Sections 1 to 4 (which are sections 2 to 5 in Ruffhead's Edition of the Statutes, by Serjeant Runnington, 1786)[4] were repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867.
^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).
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