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C.O.885

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doneonries in

whole or in part all or any of the said recited Dioceses or Arch- Letters Patent. Provided that no such revocation Colonies. shall take effect until a vacancy shall occur in the Proviso. bishopric or archdeaconry to which the same relates without the written consent of the holder thereof.

II. The several Acts mentioned in the first Repeal of Acts Schedule hereto shall be repealed to the extent in Schedule.

and parts of Acts therein specified: Provided that no act, matter, or thing heretofore lawfully done in conformity with any of the said Acts shall be invalidated by the repeal thereof.

ministerial acts in appointments and

contravention of repealed Acts.

III. No admission, institution, induction, or Validity given to appointment of any person to any parsonage or other ecclesiastical preferment within Her Majesty's dominions, or to any stipendiary curacy or chap- laincy, 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be or to have been invalid at law by reason that it was effected, made, or performed in contravention of any Act hereby repealed.

IV. Subject to the provisions of the sixth and Persons ordained seventh sections of this Act, no person admitted into by Foreign or

the holy orders of priest or deacon, under authority of the first section of an Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, chapter 60, or by any bishop not being a bishop of a diocese in England, shall be entitled to be admitted or instituted to any benefice or other ecclesiastical preferment in Eugland without the con- sent and approbation of the bishop of the diocese in which such benefice or other ecclesiastical prefer- ment may be situated; and any such bishop shall be entitled to refuse such consent and approbation with- out assigning reason for such refusal, any law or practice to the contrary notwithstanding; and every such person seeking to be admitted or instituted or inducted to such benefice or other ecclesiastical pre- ferment, or to be licensed to any curacy, shall, before being admitted, instituted, inducted, or licensed, make and subscribe before such bishop every such declaration and subscription as he would

Colonial Bishops not to hold prefer- without consent of ment in England Diocesan;

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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: Provided always, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any such person who shall hold or shall have held any benefice or other ecclesiastical preferment in England.

V. Subject as aforesaid any person who shal without reberibing have been admitted into the holy orders of priest

Declaration and

Notice to Diocesan or deacon by any bishop not being a bishop of a diocese in England, and who does not hold or who

or contrary to his Injunction.

Act not to affect persons ordained by bishop of any diocese in Ireland before January 1. 1871, or admitted under 15 and 16 Viet, cap. 52.

Exception of

persons ordained

under Commission

from English Diocesan.

has not held any benefice or other ecclesiastical preferment in England, who shall officiate in any church or chapel in any diocese-in-England before he shall have made and subscribed in the presence of some incumbent of a bencfice in England, the declaration cont

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schedule hereto, or wheel officiate on more than kn one day within three months in any church or chapel in any diocese in England, 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.

VI. Nothing in the fourth or fifth sections of this Act contained shall extend or be held to extend to any person who shall have held any benefice or ecclesiastical preferment in Ireland before the first day of January, 1871, nor to any person who shall have been admitted into the holy orders of priest or deacon by the bishop of any diocese in Ireland before the above date, or who shall have been so admitted under authority of an Act passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter 52.

VII. Nothing in the fourth or fifth 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