Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1843

Appeal from the decision of guardians on the question of residence.

Costs of appeal.

13. If any person be described in the register book as resident in any electoral division who has not so occupied a tenement or so slept in such division as aforesaid it shall be lawful for the guardian or guardians of such electoral division or a majority of them, or for any three or more of the ten persons rated on the largest amount of net annual value within the electoral division, with the consent in writing of the commissioners first obtained, to appeal against the decision of the board of guardians, in the same manner as any person aggrieved by an order or conviction of justices may appeal under the said first and secondly recited Acts; and if the justices and assistant barrister or recorder do not see fit to award costs to either party the guardians shall charge their costs to the whole of the union; and if the justices and assistant barrister or recorder see fit to award costs to the respondents the guardians of the union shall charge their costs to the electoral division on whose behalf the appeal is entered; and if they see fit to award costs to the appellant the guardians of the union shall pay such costs, and shall charge the same to the rest of the union exclusively of such electoral district.