Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act 1885

Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act 1885
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to prevent Medical Relief disqualifying a person from voting.
Citation	48 & 49 Vict. c. 46
Dates
Royal assent	6 August 1885
Commencement	15 July 1884
Other legislation
Repealed by	Representation of the People Act 1918
Status: Repealed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The whole Act, so far as unrepealed, was repealed by section 47(1) of, and the Eighth Schedule to, the Representation of the People Act 1918.^[3]

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^ ^a ^b 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.