Dublin Hospitals Regulation Act, 1856

DUBLIN HOSPITALS REGULATION ACT 1856

C A P. CX.

An Act for the better Regulation of the House of Industry Hospitals and other Hospitals in Dublin supported wholly or in part by Parliamentary Grants. [29th July 1856.]

40 G. 3. c. 40. (L.)

1 G. 4. c. 49. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 56.

Whereas an Act was passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Fortieth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for the better Regulation and Management of the House of Industry established for the Relief of the Poor in Dublin, which was amended by an Act of the First Year of His Majesty King George the Fourth, Chapter Forty-nine: And whereas by an Act passed in the First and Second Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Fifty-six, the said House of Industry was vested in the Poor Law Commissioners, and the said Commissioners have appropriated a Portion thereof to the Purposes of a Workhouse for the North Dublin Union: And whereas it is expedient to make other Provisions for the Regulation of the Hospitals attached to such House of Industry, called in this Act the “House of Industry Hospitals,” and for other Hospitals in Dublin supported wholly or in part by Parliamentary Grants:’ Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: