HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1880s → 1882 → March 1882 → 13 March 1882 → Commons Sitting → QUESTIONS.

RELIEF OF DISTRESS (IRELAND)—SEED SUPPLY ACT, 1880—THE SEEDS LOAN RATE—RIGHT OF VOTING AT POOR LAW ELECTIONS.

HC Deb 13 March 1882 vol 267 c748 748

§ MR. O'DONNELL
asked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, Whether his attention has been called to the fact that, in some districts of Ireland, payment not only of the poor rate but of the seeds loan is insisted upon as a qualification for the right of voting at poor law elections; and if this action is not illegal?

§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. W. M. JOHNSON)
It is enacted by the 7th section of the Seeds Supply Act, 1880, that the special rate is to be added to the poor rate, assessed on the rateable tenement, and collected therewith. Thus payment of the aggregate rate is a necessary qualification for the right to vote at elections of Guardians.