The Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act 1885 (
48 & 49 Vict. c. 46) was an
Act of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative suprema ...
. It became law on 6 August 1885.
It provided that any person who had received medical or surgical treatment, for themselves or their family, paid for under the
poor laws, was no longer disqualified from voting in parliamentary or municipal elections. The disqualification remained, however, with regards to voting for a member of a parochial board or any other body which governed poor relief.
[Oliver & Boyd's new Edinburgh almanac and national repository for the year 1886]
The removal of the disqualification was to be considered as having been effective from 15 July 1884.
[
As to the meaning of "medical relief", see ''Kirkhouse v Blakeway''.
The whole Act, so far as unrepealed, was repealed by section 47(1) of, and the Eighth Schedule to, the Representation of the People Act 1918.][The Law Reports: The Public General Statutes, 1918, vol 55]
p 323
References
*W Paterson (ed). "Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act, 1885". The Practical Statutes of the Session 1885. Horace Cox. London. 1885. Page
231
to 234.
*J M Lely. "Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act, 1885". Statutes of Practical Utility. (Chitty's Statutes). Fifth Edition. Sweet and Maxwell. Stevens and Sons. Chancery Lane, London. 1895. Volume 8. Title "Parliament". Page
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*"The Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act, 1885". Chitty's Statutes of Practical Utility. Sixth Edition. Sweet and Maxwell. 1912
Volume 9
Page 542.
*Miles Walker Mattinson. The Franchise Acts 1884-5, being the Representation of the People Act, 1884; Registration Act, 1885; Parliamentary Elections (Redistribution) Act, 1885, and Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act, 1885, with Introduction and Notes. London. 1885
Catalogue
Review at "Nine Law Books" (1885) 60 The Saturday Revie
616
(7 November 1885)
*J M Lely and W D I Foulkes. "48 & 49 Vict c 46". The Parliamentary Election Acts for England and Wales. William Clowes and Sons. Fleet Street, London. 1885. Page
73
to 73b.
*John James Heath Saint. "Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act, 1885". Voters and Their Registration. Butterworths. Fleet Street, London. 1885. Page
274
to 278.
*John James Heath Saint. A Digest of Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Cases. Second Edition. Butterworths. Fleet Street, London. 1887. Page
394
and 395.
*Emden and Thompson 887The Complete Annual Digest of every Reported Case in all the Courts. Title "Parliament". Paragraph 10 a
column 258
*Brian Rodgers, "The Medical Relief (Disqualification Removal) Act, 1885: A Storm in a Political Teacup " 955–19569 Parliamentary Affairs 188 to 194 (No 2, Spring 1956)
OUP
*''Oliver & Boyd's new Edinburgh almanac and national repository for the year 1886''. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1886
*"Medical Relief Disqualification Removal". Companion to the Almanac; or, Year-Book of General Information for 1886
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United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1885
1885 in British law
Poor Law in Britain and Ireland
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