Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1862

Paid officers, &c. incapable of serving as guardians.

22. No paid officer engaged in the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor, or under the Act for the better distribution, support, and management of medical charities in Ireland, nor any person who, having been such paid officer, shall have been dismissed within five years previously from such office, shall be capable of serving as a guardian; and no person receiving any fixed salary or emolument from the poor rates in any union shall be capable of serving as a guardian in such union.