The Vestries Act 1850 (13 & 14 Vict. c. 57) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to regulate the local government of parishes in England and Wales.
The vestry of a parish could resolve to request the Poor Law Board (later updated to Local Government Board) to order provision of suitable accommodation within a year of the order so that vestry meetings could take place outside of the parish church.The Handy Book of Parish Law, William Andrews Holdsworth, Cambridge University Press, (1872) A paid vestry clerk could be appointed using a similar mechanism.
Subsequent developments The whole act was repealed except for London by section 307(1)(b) of, and the fourth part of the eleventh schedule to, the Local Government Act 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5. c. 22).
The whole act was repealed by the London Government Order 1965, made pursuant to the London Government Act 1963.
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