Poor Houses Discipline Act 1888 (WA)

VICTORLE. No. 10

Poor Houses Discipline Act, 1882—Amendment

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ANNO QUINQUAGESIill0 SECOND()

VICTORI}E REGINA

No. 10

An Act to amend The Poor Houses Discipline Act,

1882.' [Assented to 26th November, 1888.

BE it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Aus-

tralia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :—

Penalty on in. 1. That notwithstanding the third section of The Poor Houses

mates of Poor Discipline Act, 1882,' it shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace to

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Of lilies or regu- order an inmate of a Poor House, who shall be convicted before him of

'Aloes a breach of any rule or regulation made under the said Act, to be imprisoned with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding one month, and to be also kept upon a diet of bread and water for any part of the said term not exceeding seven days.

Short title 2. This Act may be cited as The Poor Houses Discipline Act,

1888.'

F. NAPIER BROOME,

GOVERNOR.