A.D. 1927. [1825, s. 2.] Settlement of land, or of both, rented by him at a rent of not less than ten pounds a year for one whole year; and (b) resides in the parish in which the tenement is situated for forty days after such payment as 5 aforesaid, he shall thereby acquire a settlement in that parish: Provided that in the case of a tenement so rented no settlement shall be acquired under this section unless the tenement is occupied for a whole year by virtue of 10 the renting and rent to the amount of ten pounds is actually paid for a year of the tenancy. 115. Where an order has been made adjudging by estoppel. any person to be settled in a parish named therein and ordering him to be removed thereto, then Restrictions on the acquisition of settle ment in certain cases. [1814, s. 3.] [1773, s. 5; 1814, s. 2.] 1831 (Rel.), s. 5; 1831 (a) if the order has not been appealed against, or if any appeal against the order has been dismissed or abandoned; and 15 (b) if the person has been removed thereunder or the order shall be conclusive evidence for all purposes 116.-(1) A person born in any poor law institution shall, so far as regards his settlement of birth, be deemed to have been born in the parish in which his mother was residing before she last became chargeable as an inmate 30 of the poor law institution. (2) No person whose mother was at the time of his birth a prisoner in a prison, or a patient in a lying-in hospital, shall be deemed to be settled, by reason of his birth therein, in the parish in which the 35 prison or hospital is situated, and in the case of an illegitimate child born in a lying-in hospital, the parish in which the mother was settled at the time of birth shall be deemed to be the child's settlement of birth. (3) No person to whom any land hired, taken, or 40 enclosed under or by virtue of the provisions of Part V. (C.L.), s. 2.] of this Act, or the corresponding enactment in any Act repealed by this Act, has been let, shall acquire a settle- A.D. 1927. ment by reason of his renting and occupying, or by reason of his paying local rates in respect of, such land, either alone or with any other land or tenement. 5 (4) No toll keeper of any navigation, or person [1814, s. 5.] renting the tolls and residing in any toll house of the navigation, shall acquire any settlement by reason of renting and occupying a tenement or by reason of the payment of public taxes or local rates. and settle 10 117. No person shall derive or acquire, or be Questions deemed to have derived or acquired, a status of irre- of removability or settlement except in accordance with the movability provisions of this Part of this Act; and any question ment to be arising after the commencement of this Act as to the decided in 15 removability or settlement of any person shall be accordance determined as if those provisions had been in force at all with this material dates: Provided that where an order of removal has been made before the commencement of this Act any appeal 20 therefrom shall be determined as if this Act had not been passed. Act alone. termination 118. (1) Where at the time of the grant of relief Liability to any person that person's settlement is in question, the for relief expenses of his relief pending the determination of the pending de25 settlement shall be chargeable to the board of guardians of settleof the poor law union which is finally determined or ment. admitted to be the poor law union in which his parish of [1834, s. 84.] settlement is comprised: 30 335 40 Provided that— (a) that board shall not be liable to repay the (b) this section shall not apply where a removal (2) Any sum which a board of guardians are liable to pay under this section shall be recoverable summarily Removal by 119. If a board of guardians are satisfied that any consent. person chargeable to another poor law union is settled [1865 (U.C.), in a parish within, and removable to, their union, and 8. 6.] Removal by 8. 2; 1867, Time for removal. 1848 consent under their common seal to receive such person 5 without a removal order, the board seeking to remove him may do so without such an order. 120. Upon complaint made by a board of guardians that a person has become chargeable to the poor law union, two justices of the peace having jurisdiction in 10 any part of the union, if satisfied of the truth of the complaint and that the person is not settled within or irremovable from the union, may order him to be removed to the poor law union in which his parish of settlement is situated: Provided that 15 (a) no order shall be made for the removal of (b) a removal order in respect of a settlement alleged to have been acquired by residence 25 shall not be made upon the evidence of the person to be removed without such corroboration as the justices think sufficient. 121.-(1) No person shall be removed under a removal order until twenty-one days have elapsed after 30 [1834, s. 79; written notice of his being chargeable, accompanied by a (Proc.), s. 2.] copy of the order and by a written statement setting forth the grounds of removal (including particulars of the settlement relied upon in support thereof), has been served by the removing board of guardians upon the 35 board of guardians against whom the order is made. [1848 (2) The clerk to the justices making a removal (Proc.) order shall keep the depositions upon which the order ss. 3 and 9.] was made, and shall within seven days furnish a copy thereof to the board of guardians against whom the order 40 is made, if they apply for a copy and pay for it at the rate of twopence per folio of seventy-two words; and A.D. 1927. if such an application is made within the period of twenty-one days above mentioned, no person named in the order shall be removed until the expiration of fourteen 5 days from the sending of the copy of the depositions. (3) If notice of appeal against a removal order is [1834, s. 79.] received by the removing board of guardians within the period of twenty-one days mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, or if a copy of the depositions is applied for 10 within that period, before the expiration of the fourteen days mentioned in subsection (2) of this section, no person named in the order shall be removed until the appeal has been finally disposed of or the time for prosecuting the appeal has expired. 15 20 (4) Notwithstanding anything in this section, if the [1834, s. 79.] board of guardians against whom a removal order is made consent in writing to submit to the order and to receive any person named therein that person may be removed. forthwith. 1814, s. 10; 122.-(1) The board of guardians of the poor law Execution union from which any person is ordered to be removed of removal under the provisions of this Part of this Act may employ order. any proper person to remove and deliver him to the [1691, s. 9; board of guardians of the poor law union to which he is 1846, s. 7.] 25 ordered to be removed, and the delivery of any such person at the workhouse of the last-mentioned board to any officer of the workhouse shall be deemed a delivery to the board of guardians. (2) If any guardian or officer of a workhouse refuses 30 to receive any person so delivered in accordance with the terms of a removal order and of this Part of this Act, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds. of sickness. 123.-(1) If it appears to the justices making a Suspension 35 removal order that any person named therein is unable to of removal travel by reason of sickness or other infirmity, or that it order in case would be dangerous for him to do so, they shall by an [1795, s. 2.] endorsement on the order signed by them suspend the execution of the order until satisfied that it may 40 safely be executed without danger to that person. (2) The suspension of a removal order under this [1809, s. 3.] section shall operate also as a suspension for the same A.D. 1927. period of the order so far as it relates to every other person named therein who was of the same household or family as the sick or infirm person at the time of the making of the order. [1795, s. 2.] [1809, s. 2.] [1834, s. 84.] [1867 (Am.), s. 26.] [1795, s. 2; 1809, s. 1.] [1795, s. 2.] (3) No act done by any person continuing to reside 5 in a poor law union under the suspension of a removal order shall be of any effect for the purpose of giving him a status of irremovability therefrom or a settlement therein. (4) The suspension of a removal order shall not 10 affect the time within which notice of appeal against the order has to be given. (5) No expenses of relief shall be recoverable under (a) the removing board of guardians may at the end (b) if the removal order is subsequently executed, (6) If the sum ordered to be paid by any board of |