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Certain Parts of 7 G. 4. c. 72. repealed.
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LXV. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Commencement of this Act, and save as herein-after provided, so much and such Parts of an Act made in the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws which regulate the Levy and Application of Church Rates and Parish Cesses, and the Election of Churchwardens and the Maintenance of Parish Clerks, in Ireland, as herein-after mentioned, shall be and the same are hereby repealed; (that is to say,) so much and such Parts of the said Act as authorize and enable the Archbishop or Bishop of any Diocese wherein any Church which shall be made Cathedral and Parochial, or any Cathedral Church which shall have been made use of as a Parish Church, under the said recited Acts made in the Twenty-first Year of King George the Second, or the Thirty-ninth Year of King George the Third, is situate, to adjust and ascertain the Proportions in which the Deans and Chapters and Inhabitants shall respectively contribute as aforesaid to the rebuilding, enlarging, or keeping in repair of such Churches; and also so much and such Parts of the said Act as authorize the making or levying of any Church Rate or Parish Cess or Assessment for any of the following Purposes, namely, the building, rebuilding, enlarging, or repairing of the Church or Chapel of any Parish, Union of Parishes, or Chapelry, or of any Cathedral and Parochial Church, or Cathedral made use of as a Parish Church, the providing Things necessary for the Celebration of Divine Service therein or in any of them, as required and authorized by any Rubric or Canon in force in England or Ireland, the providing a Salary for the Maintenance of any Parish Clerk or Sexton, or the Clerk of any Chapelry or Chapel of Ease, or the defraying of the Expences of such building, rebuilding, enlarging, or repairing, or other necessary Charges, or any of them, or the taking of any other Proceedings in relation to such Rate, Cess, or Assessment, for any of the foregoing Purposes; and from and after the Commencement of this Act it shall not be lawful for any Vestry called or holden in or for any Parish, Union, or Chapelry, or Place in Ireland, or for any Person or Persons, to make or levy any Rate or Assessment for any Church Purposes whatsoever; but all such Rates or Assessments upon any Parish, Union, Chapelry, or Place, or the Inhabitants thereof or any of them, for any of the said Purposes, and all Proceedings for the making, assessing, applotting, or levying the same, shall, from and after the Commencement of this Act, wholly cease and determine; any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that every Rate, Assessment, or Applotment for any Church Purpose whatsoever shall be and shall be deemed to be by all Courts of Justice totally void as to so much thereof as provides for the aforesaid Church Purposes or any of them, any thing in the said Act of the Seventh of George the Fourth to the contrary notwithstanding; provided that nothing herein contained shall be deemed, taken, or construed to make void the said Rate or Assessment as to so much thereof as shall have been assessed or applotted for any other Purposes.
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