19世纪初期的苏格兰济贫法具有不同于英格兰的特征,但工业化所导致的失业和贫困问题的加剧,推动了苏格兰济贫法的改革。1845年苏格兰新济贫法的颁布虽然带来了苏格兰济贫法制度的一些变化,并使得苏格兰济贫法制度与英格兰出现一致化趋势,但是,改革后的苏格兰济贫法制度仍然保留了有别于英格兰的显著特征。 The Scottish Poverty Alleviation Act of the early nineteenth century differed from England in character, but the unemployment and poverty problems caused by industrialization accelerated the reform of the poverty-relief law in Scotland. Although the promulgation of the New Poor Law of Scotland in 1845 brought some changes in the legal system of the poor in Scotland and led to a trend of conformity with the law in the poor in Scotland, the reform of the system of providing services to poor people in Scotland still retains a difference from that of England Salient features.