Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840

XV Proviso respecting the Suspension of Canonries.

Provided always, and be it enacted, That the Provisions hereinbefore contained respecting the Suspension of Canonries shall not be construed to extend to the Suspension of the Canonry in the said Chapter of Canterbury now held by the Archdeacon of Canterbury, or of any Canonry in the said Chapter of Ely which may be annexed to any Professorship in the University of Cambridge, or of the Canonry in the said Cathedral Church of Durham which is prospectively annexed to the Archdeaconry of Durham by an [2 & 3 W. 4. c. 10.] Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act for separating the Rectory of Easington in the County and Diocese of Durham from the Archdeaconry of Durham, and annexing in lieu thereof a Prebend or Canonry founded in the Cathedral Church of Durham, or of either of the Canonries in the said Collegiate Church of Saint Peter Westminster to which the Rectories of Saint Margaret and Saint John Westminster are herein-after respectively annexed, or of the Canonry in the said Cathedral Church of Gloucester which is annexed to the Mastership of Pembroke College in Oxford, or of either of. the Canonries in the said Cathedral Church of Rochester which are respectively annexed to the Provost-ship of Oriel College in Oxford, and to the Archdeaconry of Rochester, or of the Canonry in the said Cathedral Church of Norwich which is annexed to the Mastership of Catherine Hall in Cambridge, or of the Canonry in the said Cathedral Church of Salisbury which is connected with the Residentiary House called Leydon or Leaden Hall, or of any Canonry in any Cathedral or Collegiate Church which shall hereafter, under the Authority of this Act, be permanently annexed to any Archdeaconry or Archdeaconries, or to any Office in the University of Durham ; but that if any Canonry so held annexed or connected or to be annexed shall be vacant in such Order as that according to the said last-mentioned Provisions it would be one of the Canonries to be suspended, the Vacancy thereof shall not be counted as a Vacancy subject to such Provisions ; and that upon the passing of this Act all then subsisting Vacancies of Canonries shall be' deemed Vacancies within the Meaning of the said last-mentioned Provisions and of this Proviso, and shall be counted, subject also to this Proviso, in the numerical Order in which they shall have occurred,