Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1838

Dissolution or alteration of unions.

16. It shall be lawful for the commissioners, from time to time, as they may think fit, to declare any such union to be dissolved, or any townland or townlands to be added to or separated from any such union, and in case of any addition to or separation from a union, or of any other alteration of the limits thereof, to make such orders as they may think fit for adapting the constitution, management, and government of such union to its altered state; . . . provided also, that no such dissolution or alteration shall in any manner prejudice, vary, or affect the rights or interests of third persons in respect of contracts entered into by or on behalf of such union or townland previous to such dissolution or alteration; and that a copy of every order by which any union shall be declared dissolved or altered shall be transmitted to one of her Majesty’s principal secretaries of state, who shall forward the same, or a duplicate thereof, to the Treasury.