Church Temporalities Act, 1833

Rotation of Archbishops sitting in Parliament.

39 & 40 G. 3. c. 67.

LI. ‘And whereas an Act was passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Fortieth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to regulate the Mode by which the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, to serve in the United Kingdom on the Part of Ireland, shall be summoned and returned to the said Parliament; and the said Act of the Parliament of Ireland was incorporated into and made Part of an Act passed in the Parliament of England in the same Year, intituled An Act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland; and by force of the said Two Acts the Right of sitting in the House of Lords of the United Parliament, as between the Lords Spiritual of Ireland, stands regulated according to a certain Rotation by the said Acts appointed to take place among the Archiepiscopal Sees, from Session to Session, and according to another like Rotation appointed to take place among the Episcopal Sees: And whereas the Enactments herein-before made for reducing the Number of the Archiepiscopal Sees in Ireland, and for the Union of certain of the Episcopal Sees, render it necessary to make Provision so as to accommodate the said Rotation to such Enactments;’ be it therefore enacted, That when and as the now Archiepiscopal Sees of Cashel and Tuam shall severally become void, they and each of them respectively shall thenceforth cease to be included in the Rotation by the said Acts established amongst the Archiepiscopal Sees, and shall be included in the Rotation by the said Acts established to be observed amongst the Episcopal Sees, and therein take place next before the Episcopal See last in the Order of Rotation of the Episcopal Sees the Bishops whereof may have sat in Parliament for the Session last previous; and the Rotation by the said Acts appointed to take place amongst the Archiepiscopal Sees shall, in case of each such Avoidance as aforesaid, proceed to the Archbishop whose See is next in Rotation to the Archiepiscopal See becoming void as aforesaid.