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LEASING POWERS AMENDMENT ACT FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES IN IRELAND ACT, 1875
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CHAPTER 11.
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An Act to enable limited Owners to grant or demise Lands for Glebes in Ireland. [13th May 1875]
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WHEREAS it is expedient to extend the benefits of the “Leasing Powers Act for Religious Worship in Ireland, 1855,” to the late Established Church of Ireland, herein-after described as the “said Church:”
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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, as follows:
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Short title of Act.
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1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as “The Leasing Powers Amendment Act for Religious Purposes in Ireland, 1875,” and this and the said before-mentioned Act of 1855 shall be read together as one Act.
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Lessee.
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2. The term “lessee” shall include the Representative Body of the said Church.
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Leasing Powers, &c. Act extended to Protestant Episcopal Church in Ireland.
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3. The said Leasing Powers Act for Religious Worship in Ireland, 1855, shall, as hereby amended, be held and construed to extend to the said Church, and all the rights, powers, privileges, and liabilities in the said Act contained in reference to congregations not belonging to the late Established Church of Ireland shall be deemed and held to apply and are hereby extended to the said Church, so far as the nature of the case may permit.
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Surrender of certain leases or grants may be accepted, and new lease made.
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4. Where any lease or grant shall have been made before tile passing of this Act for any of the purposes in this Act mentioned, and for a period less than the term for which a lease may be made under this Act, it shall be lawful for the person enabled to make a lease of such land under this Act to accept a surrender of such existing lease or grant, and make a new lease under this Act of the same land, or of the same land and any other land in conjunction therewith; provided that the entire quantity comprised in such new lease shall not exceed five acres.
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Extent of Act.
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5. This Act shall extend to Ireland only.
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