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Repeal of Acts

and Parts of Act in

Schedule.

59 George 111, c. 60,

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Colonial Bishops.

Be it therefore Enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advico and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

1. There shall be repealed the several Acts and Parts of Acts specified in the First Schedule hereto to the Extent in the said Schedule in that behalf mentioned: Provided always, That the Repeal of those Acts or any of them, or of any Parts thereof, shall not be construed to revive any Acts repealed by any of the Acts or Parts of Acts hereby repealed, or to render invalid or illegal any Act, Matter, or Thing, lawfully done in conformity with the said Acts, or any of them, at any Time before the passing of this Act.

2. 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Act passed in the Fifty-ninth Year of His late Majesty King George the Third (being One of the said Acts hereby in part repealed) it is (amongst other things) enacted that no Person who after the passing of that Act should have been ordained a Deacon or a Priest by a Colonial Bishop who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 Division, 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 Vandily given and void: Be it enacted as follows: No Admission, Institution, Induction, or Appointment 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 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 Episcopal Jurisdiction of the Bishop by whom such Person may have been

to Appoint.

ments and ministerial

acts in case of

Ordinations by Bishops not having Juris- diction in the Place of their Residence.

Colonial Bishops.

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ordained over any Diocese, District, or Placo within which such Bishop may have been actually residing at the Time of such Ordination; but every such Admission, Institution, Induction, or Appointment, and every such Ministerial Act as aforesaid, shall be deemed to have been as valid and effectual for all Purposes what- ever 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.

ed by Foreign

hold Prefer- ment in Eng.

seat of

3. No Person admitted into the Holy Orders of Priest or Persons ordain- Deacon by any Bishop not being a Bishop of a Diocese in Eng- or Colonial land or Ireland shall be entitled to be admitted or instituted to Bishops not to any Benefice or other Ecclesiastical Preferment in England or land or freland Ireland without the Consent and Approbation of the Bishop of the without Con- Diocese in which such Benefice or other Ecclesiastical Preferment Diocesan ; may be situated; and any such Bishop shall be entitled to refuse such Consent and Approbation without assigning Reason for such Refusal, any Law or Practice to the contrary notwithstanding; and every such Person seeking to be admitted or instituted to such Benefice or other Ecclesiastical Preferment, or to be licensed to any Curacy, shall, before being admitted, instituted, or licensed, nake and subscribe before such Bishop every such Declaration and Sub- scription as he would by Law have been required to make and subscribe at his Ordination if he had been ordained by a Bishop of a Diocese in England or Ireland: Provided always, That the Pro- visions of this Section shall not apply to any such Person who shall hold or shall have held any Benefice or other Ecclesiastical Prefer- ment in England or Ireland.

without

Declaration

to Diocesan or.

4. Any Person who shall have been admitted into the Holy Nor to officiate Orders of Priest or Deacon by any Bishop not being a Bishop of subscribing a Diocese in England or Ireland, and who does not hold or who and Notice has not held any Benefice or other Ecclesiastical Preferment contrary to his

Injunction. in England or Ireland, who shall officiate in any Church or Chapel in any Diocese in England or Ireland before he shall have made and subscribed in the presence of some Incumbent of a Benefice in England or Ireland, the Declaration contained in the Second Schedule hereto, or who shall officiate on more than One Day within Three Months in any Church or Chapel in any

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