The Unemployed Workmen Act 1905 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It established Distress Committees that gave out single grants to businesses or local authorities to allow them to hire more workers to decrease the number of people out of work. However, those with a criminal record were not given the opportunity to work the businesses being given grants. The whole Act was repealed by sections 12 and 137 of, and Part I of the Twelfth Schedule to, the Local Government Act 1929, subject to the savings in sections 12 and 137. This Act was repealed, as to the Republic of Ireland, by section 1 of, and Part 4 of the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision (Pre-1922) Act 2005, subject to section 2(1) of that Act.