The Poor Law Amendment Act 1868
WHEREAS it is desirable that sundry Amendments should be made in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor, and certain other Provisions enacted for facilitating the Administration of such Relief: Be it therefore 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: