Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act 1885 Explained
| Short Title: | Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act 1885 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act to prevent Medical Relief disqualifying a person from voting. |
| Year: | 1885 |
| Citation: | 48 & 49 Vict. c. 46 |
| Royal Assent: | 6 August 1885 |
| Commencement: | 15 July 1884 |
| Repealing Legislation: | Representation of the People Act 1918 |
| Status: | repealed |
The Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 46) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. 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.[1]
The removal of the disqualification was to be considered as having been effective from 15 July 1884.[1]
As to the meaning of "medical relief", see Kirkhouse v Blakeway.[2]
The whole Act, so far as unrepealed, was repealed by section 47(1) of, and the Eighth Schedule to, the Representation of the People Act 1918.[3]
References
- Book: W. . Paterson . Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act, 1885 . The Practical Statutes of the Session 1885. Horace Cox. London . 1885 . 231 to 234.
- Book: Lely, J. M. . Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act, 1885 . Statutes of Practical Utility. (Chitty's Statutes) . 5th . Sweet and Maxwell. Stevens and Sons . Chancery Lane, London . 1895 . 8 . 305 to 306.
- Book: The Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act, 1885 . Chitty's Statutes of Practical Utility . 6th . Sweet and Maxwell . 1912 . 9 . 542.
- Book: Mattinson, Miles Walker . 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 Review 616 (7 November 1885)
- Book: J. M. . Lely . 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 . 73 to 73b.
- Book: Heath Saint, John James . Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act, 1885 . Voters and Their Registration . Butterworths . Fleet Street, London . 1885 . 274 to 278.
- Book: Heath Saint, John James . A Digest of Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Cases. Second Edition . Butterworths . Fleet Street, London . 1887 . 394-395.
- Book: Emden and Thompson . 1887 . The Complete Annual Digest of every Reported Case in all the Courts. . Parliament . Paragraph 10 at column 258.
- Brian . Rodgers . The Medical Relief (Disqualification Removal) Act, 1885: A Storm in a Political Teacup . 9 . Parliamentary Affairs . 188–194 . 2 . Spring 1956 .
- Book: Oliver & Boyd's new Edinburgh almanac and national repository for the year 1886 . Oliver & Boyd . Edinburgh . 1886.
- Book: Medical Relief Disqualification Removal . Companion to the Almanac; or, Year-Book of General Information for 1886 . 249.
Notes and References
- Oliver & Boyd's new Edinburgh almanac and national repository for the year 1886
- Kirkhouse v Blakeway [1902] 1 KB 306; 71 LJKB 130; 66 JP 38; 50 WR 206; 86 LT 19; 18 TLR 182; 1 Smith 281.
- The Law Reports: The Public General Statutes, 1918, vol 55, p 323.
