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Ch. 50, 51.
Poor Law Officers Superannuation Act, 1896.
59 & 60 Vict.

The SCHEDULE.

Enactments Repealed.

Session and Chapter. Title or Short Title. Extent of Repeal.
27 & 28 Vict c. 42,(1864). An Act to provide for Superannuation Allowance to officers of unions and parishes. The whole Act.
29 & 30 Vict. c. 113. (1866). The Poor Law Amendment Act, 1866. Sections one to three.
30 & 31 Vict. c.106. (1867). The Poor Law Amendment Act, 1867. Sections eighteen and nineteen, and section twenty from "or when any parish" down to "allowonce and."
33 Vict. c. 2. (1870) The Dissolved Boards of Management and Guardians Act, 1870. Section ten.
33 & 34 Vict. c. 94. (1870). The Medical Officers' Superannuation Act, 1870. The whole Act.
39 & 40 Vict. c. 61. (1876). The Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act, 1876. Section seventeen.

CHAPTER 51.

An Act to prevent Abuse of the Process of the High Court or other Courts by the Institution of Vexatious Legal Proceedings. [14th August 1896.]

BE 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:

Power of court to prohibit institution of action without leave 1. it shall be lawful for the Attorney-General to apply to the to High Court for an order under this Act, and if he satisfies the High Court that any person has habitually and persistently instituted institution of vexatious legal proceedings without any reasonable ground for instituting such proceedings, whether in the High Court or in any inferior court, and whether against the same person or against different persons, the court may, after hearing such person or giving him an opportunity of being heard, after assigning counsel in case such person is unable on account of poverty to retain counsel, order that no legal proceedings shall be instituted by that person in the High Court or any other court, unless he obtains the