[53 Vict.]
Poor Law (Ireland) Mating.
A BILL [AS AMENDED IN COMMITTEE]
TO Amend the Poor Laws of Ireland in relation to Eating.
a.d.
1890.
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, 1890.
2.—(1.)
"When after the passing of this Act any poor rate has Liability of been made for a particular period, and the owner or occupier of ratePayer-any rateable property, who is rated in respect thereof to such poor 10 rate, ceases to be the owner or occupier of such property before the
end of such period, and has not paid the poor rate, it shall be lawful for the board of guardians of the poor law union in which the property is situated, by and with the consent of the Local Govern¬ ment Board for Ireland, to determine that such owner or occujner 15 shall be liable to a portion only of the poor rate payable for the
whole of such period proportionate to the portion of such period during which he remained owner or occupier, and thereupon he shall, notwithstanding anything in any of the Acts now in force for the relief of the destitute poor in Ireland, be liable to pay such 20 portion only: Provided, however, that the amount of such portion
shall not be leviable by distress and sale of any goods or chattels other than those of the person who has ceased to be such owner or occupier as aforesaid.
(2.)
In any such case, if any other person, before the end of the 25 period for which the poor rate was made, becomes the owner or
occupier of the property, such person shall pay a portion of the poor rate payable for the whole of such period proportionate to the portion of such period between his becoming such owner or occupier and the end of such period, and the same shall be recovered
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