Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840

XCII Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions continued.

And be it enacted, That the temporary Provisions of the said first-recited Act shall continue and be in force until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and if Parliament shall be then sitting until the End of the then Session of Parliament: Provided always, that, notwithstanding any thing in the said first-recited Act or in this Act contained, any Bishop or Archdeacon may hold Visitations of the Clergy within the Limits of his Diocese or Archdeaconry, and at such Visitations may admit Churchwardens, receive Presentments, and do all other Acts, Matters, and Things by Custom appertaining to the Visitations of Bishops and Archdeacons in the Places assigned to their respective Jurisdiction and Authority, under or by virtue of the Provisions of the said first-recited Act; and any Bishop may consecrate any new Church or Chapel or any new Burial Ground within his Diocese.