Glebe Act, 1851

Appeal from Decisions as to Buildings and Dilapidations.

XXXV. That it shall be competent for any Ecclesiastical Person, or his personal Representative, who shall feel himself aggrieved by any Order to be pronounced by any Person herein-before authorized in that Behalf, requiring him to build or improve the House of Residence of such Ecclesiastical Person, or by any Refusal of Permission to build or improve the same, or by any Allowance or Disallowance of any Claim for building or improving any such House of Residence, or for or in respect of Dilapidations committed or suffered in respect thereof, or by any Order in respect of the Sale of any Ecclesiastical Residence, or touching any Charge in respect of the said Residence, within Twelve Calendar Months after the making the Order or Refusal complained of, to appeal in a summary Way from any such Decision of a Bishop or his Vicar General to the Archbishop of the Province, or in his Absence to his Vicar General, and from the Decision of any Archbishop or his Vicar General to the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, and Six or more of the Privy Council of Ireland, being Members of the Established Church, who shall respectively have full Power and Authority to make such Order as to him or them shall seem fit in the Premises, and with respect to the Costs of the Appeal, and to grant, confirm, alter, or amend any Certificate made or refused in respect thereof; and such Order and Certificate so made, granted, confirmed, altered, or amended, shall be of the like Force and Effect as if it had been made by the Person from whose Decision such Appeal shall have been had, and shall be entered in the Registry of the Diocese in like Manner.

And with respect to the Purchase of Residences, and Demesne, Mensal, and Glebe Lands, by Ecclesiastical Persons, pursuant to Memorial and Charges in respect thereof, and the Exchange of inconvenient Residences, be it enacted as follows: