Church Temporalities Act, 1833
CHURCH TEMPORALITIES ACT 1833 | ||
C A P. XXXVII. | ||
An Act to alter and amend the Laws relating to the Temporalities of the Church in Ireland. [14th August 1833.] | ||
Acts or Parts of Acts repealed; viz. | ||
28 H. 8. c.8. | ||
28 H. 8. c.14. 2 Eliz. c. 3. | ||
2 G. 1. c.15. | ||
8G.1. c.12. s.6. | ||
10 G.1. c.7. | ||
29 G.2. c.18. | ||
29 G.3. c.26. | ||
46 G.3. c.60. | ||
43 G.3. c.106. | ||
48 G. 3. c.65. | ||
49 G.3. c.103. | ||
and 4 G.4. c.86. | ||
except as to the Repeal of former Acts; as to the Recovery of Penalties; or as to the Recovery of Monies now or hereafter due, and to Bonds and Securities for the same. | ||
‘Whereas it is expedient to make Provision for the Abolition of First Fruits in Ireland, and the Substitution of an annual Tax in lieu thereof; and it is also expedient that compulsory Assessments by Vestries should be abolished in certain Cases: And whereas the Number of Bishops in Ireland may be conveniently diminished, and the Revenues of certain of the Bishopricks, as well as the said annual Tax, applied to the building, rebuilding, and repairing of Churches and other such like Ecclesiastical Purposes, and to the Augmentation of small Livings, and to such other Purposes as may conduce to the Advancement of Religion, and the Efficiency, Permanence, and Stability of the United Church of England and Ireland: And whereas the Tenure by which Church Lands are held in Ireland is inconvenient, and it is expedient to alter the same in such Manner as may tend to the Ease and Security of the Church, and the Advantage of the Persons holding thereunder:’ Be it therefore enacted by the King’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same, That from and after the Commencement of this Act the several Acts or Parts of Acts hereafter mentioned shall be repealed; (that is to say,) an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled An Act for First Fruits; an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled An Act for the Twentieth Part; so much of an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in the Second Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act for the Restitution of the First Fruits and Twentieth Part, and Rents reserved nomine Ten or Twenty, and of Parsonages Impropriate, to the Imperial Crown of this Realm, as relates to or concerns First Fruits and Twentieth Parts, or the Payment thereof; an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in the Second Year of the Reign of King George the First, intituled An Act for confirming the several Grants made by Her late Majesty of the First Fruits and Twentieth Parts payable out of the Ecclesiastical Benefices in this Kingdom, and also for giving the Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ecclesiastical Persons some Years Time for the Payment of First Fruits; so much of an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in the Eighth Year of the Reign of King George the First, intituled An Act for the better enabling of the Clergy having Cure of Souls to reside upon their respective Benefices, and for the Encouragement of Protestant Schools within this Kingdom of Ireland, as relates to or concerns the Payment of any Sum of Money by the Trustees of First Fruits therein mentioned; an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in the Tenth Year of the Reign of King George the First, intituled An Act for amending an Act, intituled ‘An Act for confirming the several Grants made by Her late Majesty out of the First Fruits and Twentieth Parts payable out of the Ecclesiastical Benefices in this Kingdom, and also for giving the Archbishops and other Ecclesiastical Persons Four Years Time for the Payment of First Fruits,’ and for incorporating the Trustees and Commissioners of the said First Fruits; an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in the Twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of King George the Second, intituled An Act for amending and making more effectual the several Laws relating to the First Fruits payable out of the Ecclesiastical Benefices in this Kingdom, and for the better Regulation and Management of the Charitable Bequests of Doctor Hugh Boulter, late Lord Archbishop of Armagh, for augmenting the Maintenance of Poor Clergy in this Kingdom; an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in the Twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for the better enforcing the Payment of the First Fruits chargeable on the Clergy of this Kingdom; also an Act made in the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the Forty-sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for amending an Act passed in Ireland in the Twenty-ninth Year of King George the Second, intituled ‘An Act for amending and making more effectual the several Laws relating to First Fruits payable out of Ecclesiastical Benefices in this Kingdom, and for the better Regulation and Management of the Charitable Bequest of Doctor Hugh Boulter, late Lord Archbishop of Armagh, ‘for augmenting the Maintenance of Poor Clergy in this Kingdom,’ so far only as relates to the said Charitable Bequest; an Act made in the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the Forty-third Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to enable the Commissioners of First Fruits in Ireland to lend certain Sums of Money (Interest free) to Incumbents of Benefices there, for the Purpose of enabling them to erect or purchase Glebe Houses and Offices convenient for their Residence, and to purchase Glebe Lands fit and convenient for the Erection of such Houses and Offices; and to make Provision for the Repayment of all Loans so to be made by the said Commissioners; an Act made in the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to make more effectual Provision for the building and rebuilding of Churches, Chapels, and Glebe Houses, and for the Purchase of Glebe Lands, Glebe Houses, and Impropriations in Ireland; an Act made in the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the Forty-ninth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, for making Provision for the building and rebuilding of Churches, Chapels, and Glebe Houses in Ireland; so much of an Act made in the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the Fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to amend the Laws for collecting Church Rates and Money advanced by the Trustees and Commissioners of the First Fruits of Ecclesiastical Benefices, and for the Improvement of Church Lands in Ireland, as relates to the making, applotting, raising, levying, or enforcing any Rate, Assessment, or Cess for or towards the repairing, building, or rebuilding any Churches or Chapels in Ireland, or as relates to any Loans made by the Trustees and Commissioners of the First Fruits of Ecclesiastical Benefices in Ireland, or any Instalments of Sums payable to the said Trustees and Commissioners, or to any Proceeding concerning any of the same; and the said several herein-before recited Acts and Parts of Acts are hereby, from and after the Commencement of this Act, repealed accordingly, save and except so far as the said recited Acts or Parts of Acts, or any of them, repeal the Whole or any Part of any other Act or Acts; and also save and except so far as relates to any Acts, Matters, and Things done at any Time before the Commencement of this Act, all which Acts, Matters, and Things shall be and remain good, valid, and effectual, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, as if this Act had not passed; and also save and except as to the Recovery and Application of any Penalty for any Offence which shall have been committed previous to the Commencement of this Act; and also save and except as to the Recovery and Application of any Sum and Sums of Money lent or advanced under or by virtue of any of said recited Acts or Parts of Acts, and which may now be or at any Time after become due, and also save and except so far as relates to all and every the Bonds or other Securities for the Repayment of any such Sum or Sums of Money, all which Penalties, Sums of Money, and Bonds or other Securities, not by this Act otherwise provided for, shall and may be sued for, recovered, and dealt with to all Intents and Purposes as if this Act had not been passed. |