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When new Unions are created, the Lord Lieutenant and Council, with the Assent of the Archbishop, Bishop, and Patrons, may make a Settlement of the Patronage.
The Consent of the Crown as Patron may be given by the Lord Lieutenant.
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II. ‘And whereas by the said recited Act it is amongst other things also enacted, “that when Two or more Churches or Parishes shall be united into One, in pursuance of the said Act, the same having formerly had distinct Patrons, in such Cases the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, and Privy Council, with the Advice and Approbation of the respective Archbishop and Bishop in whose Province and Diocese the said Churches were situate, shall divide the Patronage by Turns among the Patrons, giving to each of them a Right to present oftener and seldomer, according to the true yearly Value of the respective Parish or Parishes whereof they are Patrons, the Consent of each Patron being first had, and entered in the Instrument for erecting the. said Union; and such Settlement or Settlements as aforesaid shall be final and binding to all Patrons, whether Ecclesiastical or Lay Patrons, and to all Parties for ever; reserving always unto every Archbishop and Bishop, Registrars and School-masters, their respective Dues payable out of every such Parish so united: Provided always, that where the Queen’s Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, is or shall be entitled to the Presentation of any of the said Parish Churches so to be united, he and they shall, from and immediately after such Union, upon the then first Vacancy, have the first Presentation of an Incumbent unto such united Church, and afterwards, upon the then next Vacancy, the other respective Patrons severally, as the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors and Council aforesaid, with the Advice and Approbation aforesaid, shall direct and appoint, regard being had to the respective Values of the several Parishes so to be united as aforesaid, and so in course respectively in manner aforesaid:” And whereas it is expedient that further Provision should be made for the Settlement of the Patronage of Ecclesiastical Unions;’ be it therefore enacted, That where, in pursuance of the said recited Act or this Act, Two or more Churches or Parishes shall be united into One, or where any Parish or Part of a Parish or Parts of Parishes shall be united to any other Parish or Parishes or Part of a Parish or Parts of Parishes, in every such Case it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, with the Assent of Her Majesty’s Privy Council in Ireland as aforesaid, if he and they shall so think fit, and with the Advice and Approbation of the Archbishop and the Bishop in whose Province and Diocese the said Churches, Parishes, Part or Parts of a Parish or Parishes, are situate, certified under their Hands and Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Seals, and with the Consent of each Patron or Person, or Body Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, whose Ecclesiastical Patronage shall be in anywise affected by the Creation of such Union, (every such Consent to be first had, and entered in the Instrument for erecting the said Union,) to make and establish such a Settlement or Distribution of the Patronage of such Union, and of the Patronage of all Unions and Parishes from which any Parish or Parishes or any Part of a Parish or any Parts of Parishes have been severed in order to create such Union, as in the Opinion of such Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors and Privy Council as aforesaid the Justice of the Case shall require; and every such Settlement or Distribution shall be final and binding to and upon all Patrons, whether Ecclesiastical or Lay Patrons, and to and upon all Parties for ever; reserving always unto every Archbishop and Bishop, Registrar and School-master, their respective Dues payable out of every such Parish or Part of a Parish so united: Provided always, that in every Case where the Consent of the Queen’s Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, is to be given to any such Settlement or Distribution of Patronage, or to making any Union, under this Act, the Consent in that Behalf of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, under his or their Hand and Seal or Hands and Seals, shall to all Intents and Purposes be as good and valid in Law as if the Consent of Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, had been thereunto signified by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Ireland.
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