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Validity given to Appoint-

ments and ministerial Acts

in case of

in the Place of their Residence.

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Colonial Bishops.

such Division, District, or Place, should be capable in any way or on any Pretence whatever of at any Time holding any Par- sonage 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 5 Established Church of England and Ireland, and that all Admis- sions, 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: 10 And whereas it is apprehended that through Ignorance or Inad- vertence or Misapprehension of the Law as to Episcopal Jurisdiction in some of Her Majesty's Colonies or Foreign Possessions Persons Ordinations ordained by Colonial Bishops who at the Time of such Ordination by Bishops not having did not actually possess an Episcopal Jurisdiction over the Diocese, 15 Jurisdiction 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 20 Church of England and Ireland: Be it enacted as follows: No Admission, Institution, or Induction of any Person so ordained as aforesaid to any Parsonage or other Ecclesiastical Preferment within Her Majesty's Dominions, or to any Stipendiary Curacy or Chaplaincy, nor any Act performed by any such Person as a 25 Minister of the Established Church of England and Ireland, shall be deemed to be 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 30 such Ordination; but every such Admission, Institution, or Induc- tion, and every such ministerial Act as aforesaid, shall be deemed to 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, 35 District, or Place, and actually residing therein.

Saving, &e.

Meaning of

**Bishop."

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 one by any such 40 Bishop, any Forec or Effect which they would not otherwise by Law respectively have had, save as herein expressly provided.

13. In this Act the Word" Bishop" shall be construed to include Archbishop.

SCILE-

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Colonial Bishops.

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 5 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 Per for the Colonies.

Pergons into Holy Orders specially

3&4 Vict. c. 93.

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 15 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

20 Functions, under Commission from Bishops of England and Ireland.

16 & 17 Viot, 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

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