MODIFICATIONS. Any penalty recoverable on summary conviction may be recovered in accordance with the law relating to summary convictions in Ireland. In the above-mentioned enactment of the Representation of the People Act, 1867, the thirty-first day of December shall be substituted for the fifth day of January, the first day of May for the first day of June, and the twentieth day of May for the twentieth day of June. Editors' Note.] See note to s. 9 as to the application of this schedule to England. The "above-mentioned" enactment of Act of 1867 is s. 28 as to giving notice of rates in arrear. See that section, p. 126. 48 Vict. c. 3, Schedules 1 and 2. 48 Vict. c. 3, Schedule 3. Requisition by [See s. 9.] THIRD SCHEDULE. FORM OF REQUISITION BY OVERSEERS REQUIRING NAMES OF To E.F. You are hereby required to fill up accurately the under-written form. If this form is not returned to [us], accurately filled up, within twentyone days after the service hereof, you will be liable, under the Representation of the People Act, 1884, to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. 18 Overseers [or assistant overseer] for the parish of Property in respect of which the Person making the Return is rated [or liable to be rated, or occupier]. Form of Return. 2. Situation or Descrip- 3. Surname and other Name of every Man who was on the fifteenth [or in English Counties or in Scotch Counties or Boroughs last, or in Irish Counties or Boroughs twentieth] day of July last, and has been up to the date of the Return an Inhabitant Occupier of any Dwelling House in the Second Column. Editors' Note.] This form, which by s. 9 might be made use of by the overseers in the execution of a duty to be performed in April or May, is superseded by Form A. in Schedules 2 and 3 (pp. 195, 218) of the Registration Act, 1885, which received the Royal Assent on the 21st May, 1885, the new form differing from the old one in altering "the last " to "the 15th" July in column 3, in order to conform to s. 12 of that Act, and also in adding very complete "instructions for filling up a form;" but the new form is not intended to be sent in 1885. See the marginal note to the forms in the schedules to that Act, pp. 195, 214. 48 Vict. c. 15. Registration Act, 1885. [For other sections, see post, Part II., “Registration of Electors.”] 48 Vict. c. 15, ss. 10, 12, 15. 10. Any person deemed to be an inhabitant occupier under Operation of section three of the Representation of the People Act, 1884, Act of 1884 shall be qualified to be registered as if the provisions of that throughout Act had been in force throughout the year 1884, and had been carried into effect. 1884. * p. 56. 12. Whereas by section seven of the Parliamentary and Period of Municipal Registration Act, 1878,* it is provided that every qualification in period of qualification for parliamentary voters in parliamentary counties. boroughs which was then computed by reference to the last day of July should be computed by reference to the fifteenth day of July, and the said enactment extends to occupation voters in parliamentary counties, and it is expedient to extend the same enactment to all other voters in parliamentary counties: Be it therefore enacted as follows:: Every period of qualification as defined by the said Act for any voter in a parliamentary county which is now computed by reference to the last day of July shall, instead of being so computed, be computed by reference to the 15th day of July. 15. From and after the passing of this Act, section seventyeight of the Act of Parliament passed in the second year of the reign of his Majesty King William the Fourth shall be and the same is hereby repealed. Provided that no person shall be prevented by any other Act from being registered as a parliamentary voter in respect of his occupation of any chambers or premises in any of the colleges or halls of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge. The 78th section of the Reform Act, 1832, ante, p. 27, repealed by this section, provides that nothing in that Act shall entitle any person to vote for the city of Oxford or the town of Cambridge "in respect of the occupation of any chambers or premises in any of the colleges or halls of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge." That section applies to the qualifications under the Act of 1867: Bakewell v. Peters, L. R. 4 C. P. 539; 38 L. J. C. P. 266; 17 W. R. 970; 1 Colt. 251; and the occupier of a set of rooms within that section occupies a "dwelling-house," not "lodgings," ib. Shall not be prevented by any other Act.] It is conceived that any other Act in pari materiâ is intended to be referred to, i.e. any other Act, such as the Act of 1878, s. 43, p. 162, and the Cambridge Award Act, 1856, 19 Vict. c. xvii. s. 35, by which "no member of the University [of Cambridge] or of any College shall, by reason of any rate on the property occupied by the University or by the College, be entitled to be registered as an elector of the borough," disqualifying the university men as such, and not any Act affixing qualifications such as full age and a certain period of residence to electors in general. The question, therefore, may perhaps arise in some cases how far an undergraduate being in statu papillari, and who, therefore, though having exclusive possession of his rooms in law, might in some cases occupy them in fact during term time by leave only from the college authorities, can acquire a residential qualification. See, on this point, Ford v. Hart, L. R. 9 C. P. 273, and other cases cited in the notes to s. 27 of the Act of 1832 and s. 3 of the Act of 1867. Repeal of s. 78 of Reform Act, 1832, as to Universities. 48 & 49 Vict. 48 & 49 Vict. c. 23. [Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885.] [For other sections of this Act, see post, Part IV., "Electoral Areas."] c. 23. Successive occupation in divided borough. Enfranchise ment of certain persons disqualified for corrupt practices. Disqualification of certain voters for corrupt practices. 10. The occupation in immediate succession of different premises situate within a parliamentary borough shall, for the purpose of qualifying a person for voting in any division of such borough in respect of occupation (otherwise than as a lodger), have the same effect, as if all such premises were situate in that division of the borough, in which the premises occupied by such person at the end of the period of qualification are situate. See s. 28 of the Act of 1832, p. 19, s. 26, of the Act of 1867, p. 42, and as lodgers, see s. 6 of the Act of 1878, p. 56, from which it will be seen that the lodger's "successive occupation" must be of lodgings in the same house. 27. The Acts mentioned in the first part of the Eighth Schedule to this Act, whereby certain persons reported guilty of corrupt practices are declared not to have certain rights of voting, are hereby repealed to the extent in the third column of that schedule mentioned. The English Acts mentioned in the first part of the Eighth Schedule are the Act of 1867, ss. 13, 14, 15, and 16 (p. 41), as to persons in Totnes, Great Yarmouth, Lancaster, and Reigate; 33 & 34 Vict. c. 21, ss. 2, 3, 4, and 5, as to persons in Bridgwater and Beverley; and 33 & 34 Vict. c. 25, and 34 & 35 Vict. c. 77, as to persons in Norwich. 28.-(1.) Whereas commissioners appointed by her Majesty, in pursuance of addresses from both Houses of Parliament in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty, reported that at Parliamentary elections for the boroughs named in the second part of the Eighth Schedule to this Act, the persons named in the schedules to the said reports had been guilty of corrupt practices, be it therefore enacted, that— Where in any of the schedules to the said reports a person is liamentary election for the county or division of a (b.) If the parliamentary borough continues to return a (2.) Section thirty-nine of the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883, shall apply to every person disqualified under this section for being registered as a voter. c. 23. (3.) Any person named in any of the said schedules to the said 48 & 49 Vict. commissioners' reports against whom any criminal proceeding has been instituted for the corrupt practice referred to in the schedule, within the time limited for the purpose, and who has been acquitted, shall not be subject to any disqualification under this Act. (4.) Any copy of a report of the said commissioners, and of the schedules annexed to that report, if purporting to be printed by any printer to her Majesty, or under the authority of her Majesty's Stationery Office, shall be sufficient evidence of the said report and schedules. The boroughs named in the second part of the eighth schedule are Boston, Canterbury, Chester, Gloucester, Knaresborough, Macclesfield, Oxford, and Sandwich. 48 & 49 Vict. c. 46. An Act to Prevent Medical Relief disqualifying a person from voting. [6th August, 1885. BE IT ENACTED, as follows; (that is to say,) 48 & 49 Vict. c. 46. 1. This Act may be cited as "The Medical Relief Disqualifi- Short title. cation Removal Act, 1885." It was stated by Mr. Balfour in the House of Commons that from statistics collected by the Local Government Board it appeared that the number of persons receiving medical without other outdoor relief would be on an average about two in a thousand. not to dis qualify. 2.-(1.) Where a person has in any part of the United Medical relief Kingdom received for himself, or for any member of his family, any medical or surgical assistance,* or any medicine at the expense of any poor rate, such person shall not by reason thereof be deprived of any right to be registered or to vote either (a.) as a parliamentary voter; or (b.) as a voter at any municipal election; or (c.) as a burgess; or (d.) as a voter at any election to an office under the provisions of any statute; but nothing in this section shall apply to the election— (b.) of any member of any parochial board in Scotland; or (2.) Every person shall be qualified to be registered as a voter and to vote as aforesaid who would be so qualified if the provisions of this Act had come into force on the fifteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four. Medical relief would have been but for this Act "parochial relief," so as to disqualify under s. 36 of the Reform Act, 1832, p. 25, and s. 40 of the Act * s. 4. |