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Diocese in England or Ireland, without notifying the same and transmitting the aforesaid Declaration to the Bishop of the Diocese in which such Church or Chapel is situate, or who shall officiate contrary to any Injunction of the Bishop of the Diocese, under his Hand and Seal, shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of Ten Pounds to the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, to be recovered by Action of Debt, brought in the Name of the Treasurer of the said Bounty, in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, or in the Court of Session in Scotland, at the Suit of the Public Prosecutor, or in Ireland in any Court of Common Law, in the Name of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
5. Nothing in the last Two preceding Sections of this Act contained shall extend or be held to extend to any Person who, upon the Request and by the Commission in Writing under the Hand and Seal of the Bishop of any Diocese in England or Ireland, and with the Consent and Licence in Writing of the Archbishop of the Province within which such Diocese shall be situated, shall have been or may hereafter be ordained a Deacon or Priest within the Limits of such Diocese by a Bishop not being a Bishop of a Diocese in England or Ireland; and all Admissions, Institutions, and Inductions to Benefices or other Ecclesiastical Preferment in the United Church of England and Ireland, and all Appointments to act as Curates and Chaplains therein of Persons so admitted into Holy Orders by any such Bishop upon and by any such Request and Commission as aforesaid, shall, notwithstanding anything herein contained, be to all Intents and Purposes good and valid in Law.
6. Provided always, That every Bishop who shall ordain any ject to Condi. Person in pursuance of such Request and Commission as aforesaid shall be subject to the several Provisions and Limitations established by the Laws of this Realm or Canons Ecclesiastical as to the Titles of the Persons to be ordained, and as to the Oaths and Sub- scriptions to be by such Persons taken and made; and further that all Letters of Orders of Persons so ordained shall issued in the Name and be subscribed with the Signature of the ordaining Bishop as Commissary of the Bishop of the Diocese at whose Request and
by whose Commission he shall officiate in conferring such Orders, and shall be sealed with the Seal of the Bishop of such Diocese; and and registered all such Acts of Ordination shall be recorded and registered in like Irish Diocese. in English or Manner as if they had been performed by the Bishop of such Diocese.
7. Nothing contained in an Act passed in the Fifty-third 53 Geo. 111.
Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An c. 155, "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 Admi- nistration 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
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and Fourth Years of His late Majesty King Willliam the Fourth, and 3 and 4 intituled "An Act for effecting an Arrangement with the East 0.8, "India Company, and for the better Government of His Majesty's "Indian Territories till the Thirtieth Day of April, One thousand not to prevent
· Eight hundred and fifty-four," or in any Letters Patent issued from perform.
Indian Bishops under Authority of the said Acts, or either of them, shall prevent Function
ing Episcopal any Person who shall be or shall have been Bishop of Calcutta, mission. 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.
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8. Provided always, That nothing in this Act contained shall This Act not be construed to permit any Bishop to perform any Function peculiar of Diocesan, to the Office of a Bishop within any Diocese in England or Ireland without the Consent in Writing under the Hand of the Bishop of the said Diocese, or to limit or affect any Power, Authority, or Jurisdiction, now or hereafter lawfully possessed by any Bishop of a Diocese in England or Ireland.
9. Provided also, That nothing in this Act contained shall
be construed to affect or to repeal any of the Provisions of an Act or to repeal passed in the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Years of the Vict. c. 94.
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Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to remove Disabilities affecting the Bishops and Clergy of the Protostant Episcopal Church in Scotland."
10. The Word “Bishop” shall in this Act include Arch- bishop.
11. This Act may be cited as "The Colonial Bishops and Clergy Act 1868."