And registered in
English or Irish
Diocese.
•
53 Geo. 11,
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take place, and shall be sealed with the seal of the Bishop of such diocese; and all such Acts of ordination shall be recorded and registered in like manner as if -they had been performed by the Bishop of such diocese.
12. Nothing contained in nu Act passed in the fifty-third year of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An Act for continuing in the East India Company for a further Term the Possession of the British Territories in India, with certain exclusive privileges, for establishing further Regulations for the Government of the said Territories, and the better Administration of Justice within the same, and for regulating the Trade to and from the Places within the limits of the said Company's Charter;" or in another Act passed in the Third And 334 Win. IV. and Fourth Years of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled " An Act for effecting an arrangement with the East India Company, and for the better Government of His Majesty's. Indian Territories till the Thirtieth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four," or in any Letters Patent issued under authority of the said Acts, or either of them, shall prevent any person who shall be or shall have been Bishop of Calcutta. Madras, or Bombay in India from performing Episcopal functions not extending to the exercise of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in pursuance of any such request and commission as aforesaid in any diocese in England or Ireland.
Not to prevent
Indian Bishops
Trom performing Episcopal function
under Comunistion.
55 Geo. III, c. 60.
13. Whereas by the Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of His late Majesty King George the Third (being one of the said Acts hereby repealed) it is (amongst other things) enacted that no person who after the passing of that Act should have been ordained a deacon or priest by a Colonial Bishop who at the time of such ordination did not actually possess an Episcopal Jurisdiction over some diocese, district, or place, or was not actually residing within such diocese, district, or place, should be capable in any way or on any pretence whatever of at any time holding any parsonage or other Ecclesiastical preferment within His Majesty's dominions, or of being a stipendiary curate or chaplain, or of officiating at any place or in any manner as a minister of the Established Church of England and Ireland, and that all admissions, institutions, and inductions to benefices in the Church of England or Church of Ireland, and all appointments to act as curates therein, which shall be made contrary to the provisions of that Act should be to all intents and purposes null and void: And whereas it is appre hended that through ignoranez or inadvertence or misapprehension of the law as to Episcopal jurisdiction in some of Her Majesty's colonics or foreign pos- sessions persons ordained by Colonial Bishops who at the time of such ordination did not actually possess an Episcopal jurisdiction over the diocese, district, or place within which they were then actually residing, may have held or may now hold parsonages or other Ecclesiastical preferments within Her Majesty's dominions, or may have been or may now be stipendiary curates or chaplains therein, or may have officiated from time to time as ministers of the Established Validity given in
Church of England and Ireland: Be enacted as follows: No admission, insti- apponisten, zit- and
tution, or induction of any person so ordained as aforesaid to any parsonage or minister al ncs in
other Ecclesiastical preferment within Her Majesty's dominions, or to any case of Ordination- by Bimpe um
stipendiary curacy or chaplaincy, nor any act performed by any such person as a having jurisdict minister of the Established Church of England and Ireland, Shall be deemed to in the place of their he or to have been invalid at law by reason of any want of jurisdiction of the Bishop by whom such person may have been ordained over any diocese, district, or place within which such Bishop may have been actually residing at the time of such ordination; but every such admission, institution, or induction, and every such ministerial act as aforesaid, shall be deemed have been as valid and effectual for all purposes whatever as if the person so ordained as aforesaid had been ordained by a Colonial Bishop possessing an Episcopal jurisdiction over some diocese, district, or place, and actually residing therein.
Te sidefier.
Saving, &
14. Nothing in this Act contained shall confer upon any Bishop any jurisdiction to which he would not otherwise have been by law entitled, or shall give to any such Letters Patent, or Royal Mandate or Licence as aforesaid, or to any act done by any such Bishop, any force or effect which they would not otherwise by law respectively have hal, save as berein expressly provideu.
15 In this Act the word "Bishop "shall be construed to include Archi- bi-hop, Metropolitan, or Primate.
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SCHEDULE.
26 Geo. III, c. 84.
An Act to empower the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Archbishop of York for the time being to consecrate to the Office of Bishop Persons being Subjects or Citizens of Countries out of His Majesty's Dominions.
59 Geo. III., c. 60.
An Act to permit the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and the Bishop of London, for the Time being, to admit Persons into Holy Orders specially for the Colonies.
3 & 4 Vict., c. 33.
An Act to make certain Provisions and Regulations in respect to the Exercise within England and Ireland of their Office by the Bishops and Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Scotland; and also to extend such Provisions and Regulations to the Bishops and Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America; and also to make further Regulations in respect to Bishops and Clergy other than those of the United Church of England and Ireland.
15 & 16 Vict., c. 52.
An Act to enable Colonial and other Bishops to perform certain Episcopal Functions, under Commission from Bishops of England and Ireland.
16 & 17 Vict., c. 49.
An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to enable Colonial and other Bishops to perform certain Episcopal Functions, under Commission from Bishops of England and Ireland.”
No. 8.
Copy of a LETTER from the Law Officers oF THE CROWN to the Right IIon. EDWARD CARDWELL, M.P.
Sir,
Lincoln's Inn, February 13, 1886. WE are honoured with your commands signified in Sir Frederic Rogers' letter of the 31st January ultimo, in which he stated that, in our joint Report dated the 10th of January, and relating to a Memorial from the Bishops of New Zealand on the status of Colonial Bishops, it was recommended that the draft settled by us last session in relation to the Colonial Episcopate should be so enlarged as to remove certain legal impediments to the consecration of Bishops for voluntary Episcopal Churches in the Colonies, to exclude any special jurisdiction in respect to such churches, and to enable Her Majesty to accept the surrender by Colonial Bishops of their existing Letters-patent:
That these recommendations are embodied in the accompanying draft: That the suggestion made by the Archbishop of Canterbury in his letter of the 8th of November (of which a copy was inclosed in Sir Frederic Rogers' reference of the 22nd of December', of repealing existing Acts of Parliament which relate to the Colonial Church, has been to a certain extent adopted ;
That is to say, the existing laws which regulate the position in England of elergy ordained by Colonial or lg any other Pishops, not being Bishops of English or Irish dioceses, are repealed, and so much of them as it seems advisable
to retain is consolidated, with a certain amount of modification :
That the effect of the whole is to extend to all Bishops other than English and Irish diocesans, the provisiöfs made last session with respect to the Scottish Episcopal Church, subject to such modifications as will enable such Bishops to perform Episcopul functions ministerially under commission from English or Trish diveesan“.
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