[52 Vict.]
Poor Law (Ireland) Amendment.
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TO Amend the Poor Laws of Ireland in relation to Eating.
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1889.
BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : 5 1.
This Act shall be cited as the Poor Laws Acts (Ireland) Short title.
Amendment Act, 1889.
2.
By this Act, so much of the existing Poor Laws Acts as Liability of establish the liability of the owner or occupier for the payment of a ratepayer, full year's rate, by reason of the occupation of the premises rated on 10 the day on which rate was struck, shall be and is hereby repealed.
3.
After the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the various Authority boards of poor law guardians, by and with the consent of tbe Local for receiving Government Board for Ireland, to authorise those whom they have rate, appointed or may appoint as collectors of poor's rate to receive from 15 the person who may be liable for the payment of the rate, whether
owner or occupier, a sum equivalent to that which the term of occupation will bear to the full year's rate; and if the year's rate may have been paid in error, on proof of vacancy being given, to refund to whomsoever such rate may have been paid, whether owner 20 or occupier, an amount of rate equal to that for which such proof of vacancy may have been given.
[Bill 169.]
