Parishes Act 1845
PARISHES ACT 1845 | ||
CAP. LIV. | ||
An Act to amend the Laws in force in Ireland for Unions and Divisions of Parishes; for the Settlement of the Patronage thereof, and the Celebration of Marriages in the same. [31st July 1845.] | ||
7 & 8 G. 4. c. 43. | ||
The Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council in Ireland, with the Consent of the Archbishop, Bishop, and Patrons, may unite Parts of One or more Parishes to any other Parish or Parishes. | ||
‘WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Seventh and Eighth Years of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws in force in Ireland for Unions and Divisions of Parishes, and for uniting or disappropriating appropriate Parishes or Parts of Parishes; and to make further Provisions with respect to the erecting Chapels of Ease, and making Perpetual Cures, it is amongst other things enacted, “that it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, with the Assent of the major Part of His Majesty’s Privy Council in Ireland in Council assembled, Six at least assenting, and with the Advice and Approbation of the Archbishop of the Province and the Bishop of the Diocese, certified under their Hands and Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Seals, with the Consent of the respective Patrons, certified under their Hands and Seals, attested by Two or more credible Witnesses subscribing thereunto, to divide old Parishes, or to separate any Parish or Part of a Parish heretofore united, in whatever Manner such Union may have been effected, and to unite Parishes one to another, or any Part of a Parish to another Parish or Part of a Parish, in perpetuity, and to erect such divided or united Parishes or Parts of Parishes into new Parishes, with all parochial Rights” And whereas it is expedient that the said Provision should be extended:’ Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’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 it shall be lawful for such Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors, with Assent of the major Part of the Privy Council as aforesaid, in like Manner, and with such Advice, Approbation, and Consent respectively as aforesaid, certified or attested as aforesaid, to unite Parts of One or more Parishes to any other Parish or Parishes or Part or Parts of a Parish or Parishes, and to erect such united Parishes or Part or Parts of a Parish or Parishes, or such Unions, into new Parishes, with all parochial Rights; and all such Unions made under this Act shall be subject to the several Provisions of the said recited Act in respect to Unions made under that Act, save and except so far as the same would be repugnant to this Act: Provided always, that nothing in this Provision contained shall be construed to prejudice the Powers in the said recited Act contained as to Unions or Divisions of Parishes. |