Terms of The Poor Law Amendment Act
- The Bill established a Poor Law Commission to oversee the national operation of the system.
- The Act called for parishes to be put into Poor Law Unions so that relief could be provided more easily. Each union was to establish a workhouse which met the principle of less eligibility.
- The Amendment Act did not ban all forms of outdoor relief. Not until the 1840s would the only method of relief be for the poor to enter a workhouse. The workhouses were to be made little more than prisons and families were normally separated upon entry. Outdoor relief was "discouraged" but not abolished.
- There were a number of provisions that aimed at stopping previous discrimination against non-conformists and Roman Catholics.
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