Irish Church Act, 1869

Forms of application, and general rules.

8. The Commissioners shall circulate forms of application and directions as to the mode in which applications are to be made to them under this Act.

They shall also from time to time make, and when made they may rescind, amend, or add to, such general rules as they may think best adapted for regulating the course of procedure under this Act, and generally for securing the due execution of the powers vested in them by this Act, and giving effect to the provisions: Provided that every such general rule shall be laid before Her Majesty’s Privy Council of Ireland, and it shall be lawful for such Privy Council, by order signed by six of the said Privy Council, to confirm or disallow any such rule, or to alter or amend, and confirm with alteration or amendment, any such rule, or to remit any such rule to the Commissioners for further consideration; and every such general rule (when the same shall have been confirmed by order of the said Privy Council) shall be enrolled in the High Court of Chancery in Ireland, and when so enrolled shall be binding on the Commissioners in the exercise of their powers, and shall be of the same force and effect as if the same had been enacted by authority of Parliament; provided always, that any rules so confirmed and enrolled as aforesaid may from time to time be rescinded, amended, or altered, as occasion may require, by other rules made by the Commissioners, and confirmed and enrolled in like manner.

All general rules made and enrolled as aforesaid shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within one month from the enrolment thereof, if Parliament be then sitting, or, if Parliament be not then sitting, within one month from the commencement of the then next session of Parliament.

[S. 9 rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54. (S.L.R.)]

Transfer of Property and Dissolution of Ecclesiastical Corporations.

[S. 10 rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54. (S.L.R.)]