Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1850

XII Ecclesiastical Commissioners may make General Rules for the Direction of the Estates Committee.

And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners from Time to Time to make General Rules for the Direction of the Estates Committee relative to the Matters and Acts to be considered, done, and executed by such Estates Committee, in which Rules the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners may not only establish General Regulations for the Transaction of the Business of such Committee, but may declare the general Principles which shall guide the Decision of such Committee, and the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners may from Time to Time revise and by other General Rules vary the same as the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners shall think fit; and all such General Rules shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within Fourteen Days after the making thereof, if Parliament be sitting, and if Parliament be not sitting, then within Fourteen Days after the next Meeting of Parliament.