The Poor Relief Act 1691 (3 Will. & Mar. c. 11) was an act of the Parliament of England.
Provisions Section 1 of the act revived the Poor Relief Act 1662 (14 Cha. 2. c. 12), as amended by the Administration of Intestates' Estate Act 1685 (1 Ja. 2. c. 17), from 1 March 1691.
An attorney's clerk, articled by indenture, was an apprentice within the meaning of section 8 of the act, and, as such, gained a settlement under this act in the parish in which he inhabited while serving under his articles.St. Pancras v Clapham (1860) 2 El & El 742 (1860) 121 ER 278
Subsequent developments Sections 1–4 (which are sections 2–5 in Ruffhead's Edition of the Statutes, by Serjeant Runnington, 1786),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). section 5 (section 6 in Ruffhead's Edition) from "shall for" to "year or," and sections 6 (section 7 in Ruffhead's Edition) and 12, of the act, were repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 59), which came into force on 15 July 1867.
Section 11 of the act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 59), which came into force on 16 September 1887.
The whole act was repealed by section 245(1) of, and the eleventh schedule to, the Poor Law Act 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5. c. 14), which came into force on 1 October 1927.
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References Halsbury's Statutes,