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1896.  An Act to prevent certain Disqualifications for Elections to Parish Councils of 1896.[27th March 1896.]

E 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:

1. Any person who is otherwise qualified for election, but who Qualification has entered into residence on or before the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, shall be eligible for election at the parish council elections of the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, notwithstanding that the period of residence is under one year, and if so elected shall be held to have been duly qualified.

2. This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Elections) (No. 2) Act, 1896.   An Act to enable Women to be elected and act as Poor Law Guardians in Ireland.[31st March 1896.]

E 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:

1. No person otherwise qualified to be elected and to be a guardian for a poor law union in Ireland, shall be disqualified by sex or marriage for being elected or being such guardian, anything contained in any Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

This Act may be cited as the Poor Law Guardians (Ireland) (Women) Act, 1896.

  An Act to make provision for the Construction of Works in the United Kingdom and elsewhere for the purpose of the Royal Navy.[31st March 1896.]

Most Gracious Sovereign,

HEREAS it is expedient to make provision for the construction of the works specified in the schedule to this Act, both in the United Kingdom and in the colonies in the schedule mentioned:

And whereas the said schedule sets forth estimates, of the cost of those works, of the time within which they are to be completed, of the amount expended thereon, and of the amount required for the expenditure thereon during the financial year ending the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven: 