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POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) (NO. 2) ACT 1847

POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) (NO. 2) ACT 1847 - LONG TITLE

An Act to provide for the Execution of the Laws for Relief of the
Poor in Ireland.{1}
[22nd July 1847]
This Act no longer applies in relation to the purposes for which
it was originally enacted. Its provisions, with the exception of
those set out below, have been repealed; for the repealing
authorities see the Chronological Table of the Statutes (NI).

Sections 19 and 20 are still in force for the purposes of their
application by section 1(2) schedule 1 Pt.III of the House of
Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949 (c.66) to local inquiries
by the Boundary Commission in connection with proposals for
redistribution of seats.

POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) (NO. 2) ACT 1847 - SECT 19
Power to summon witnesses.

19. The commissioners, or any one of them, and also any such
inspector, acting in execution of the Acts now or hereafter to be
in force for the relief of the poor in Ireland, by summons under
the seal of the commissioners, or under the separate hand and seal
of any commissioner or inspector respectively, as the case may be,
may require the attendance of all such persons as they or he shall
think fit to call before them or any of them respectively upon any
matter connected with the execution of this Act, or the
administration of the laws for the relief of the poor in Ireland,
at such time and place as shall be set forth in the summons, and
may make inquiry and require returns, and may administer oaths, and
examine all such persons upon oath, and may require and enforce the
production upon oath of books, contracts, agreements, accounts, maps,
plans, surveys, valuations, and writings, or copies thereof
respectively, in anywise relating to any such matter, or when the
commissioners, or any one of the commissioners, or any inspector,
shall think fit, instead of requiring such oath as aforesaid, may
require any such person to make and subscribe a declaration of the
truth of the matters respecting which he shall have been or shall
be so examined: Provided always, that no person shall be required,
in obedience to any such summons, to go more than twenty statute
miles from the place of his abode; provided also, that nothing
herein contained shall empower the commissioners, or any commissioner
or inspector, to require the production of the title, or of any
papers or deeds relating to the title, of any lands, tenements, or
hereditaments, not being property vested in the commissioners by this
Act.

POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) (NO. 2) ACT 1847 - SECT 20
Penalties for giving false evidence, or refusing to give evidence,
&c.

20. ... every person who shall refuse or wilfully neglect to attend
in obedience to any summons of the commissioners, or of any one of
the commissioners or any inspector, or to give evidence, or who
shall wilfully alter, suppress, conceal, destroy, or refuse to
produce any books, contracts, agreements, accounts, maps, plans,
surveys, valuations, or writings, or copies of the same, which may
be required to be produced for the purposes of this Act, to any
person authorized by this Act to require the production thereof,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.