Colonial Bishops.
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Status, &c.
of Bishop to be judged by ordinary Courts of Law.
Saving, &c.
Meaning of "Bishop."
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Colonial Bishops.
to Time any Bishop for the Purpose of exercising Episcopal Func- tions in any of Her Majesty's Colonies or Foreign Possessions, or elsewhere beyond the Limits of the United Kingdom, for the Benefit of such Clergy, Congregations, and Persons as may volun- tarily submit themselves thereto, although no Royal Mandate in 5 the Form heretofore accustomed and required by Law may have been granted for or may be produced or read at such Consecration, and no such Mandate or Licence shall be necessary for any such Consecration elsewhere than within the United Kingdom.
11. All Questions of Law respecting the Status, Rights, Powers, 10 and Duties of any Bishop exercising Episcopal Functions in any of Her Majesty's Colonies or Foreign Possessions in which there shall be no Ecclesiastical Court established by Law with Jurisdiction to determine such Questions in relation to any other Bishop, or to any such Clergy, Congregations, or Persons as aforesaid, and of all such 15 Clergy, Congregations, and Persons in relation to any such Bishop as aforesaid, shall be tried and determined by the same Courts (whether in Her Majesty's Colonies or Foreign Dominions or in Great Britain) and in the same Manner in all respects as any Questions of the like Nature arising with respect to the Status, Rights, Powers, 23 or Duties of any Ministers, Clergy, Congregations, or Persons pro- fessing any other Form of Religion not established by Law within the same Part of Her Majesty's Colonies or Foreign Dominions are or ought to be tried and determined, and not in any other Manner or by any other Courts or Court or Authority whatsoever.
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12. 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 30 Law respectively have had, save as herein expressly provided.
13. In this Act the Word" Bishop" shall be construed to include Archbishop.
SCHEDULE.
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 5 for the Colonies.
3 & 4 Vict. a. 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 10 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 Rishops and Clergy other than those of the United Church of England and Ireland,-except so far as relates to Bishops and Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
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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
20 Years of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to enable Colonial and other
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Bishops to perform certain Episcopal Functions, under Commission from Bishops of England and Ireland.”
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