Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1850

XVII Fixed Incomes maybe secured to Archbishops and Bishops appointed after 1st January 1848.

And whereas Her Majesty has issued a Commission to certain Persons therein named to inquire, amongst other things, whether any and what Improvement can be made in the existing Law and Practice relating to the Incomes of Archbishops and Bishops, so as to secure to them respectively fixed instead of fluctuating annual Incomes ; and it is expedient that until the said Commissioners shall have made their Report, and Parliament shall have determined upon some permanent Mode of effecting the Object last aforesaid, temporary Arrangements should be made for that Purpose : Be it enacted, That, notwithstanding the Provisions of the said first-recited Act, and any Order or Orders of Her Majesty in Council founded thereon, relating to or providing for the Payment to or by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England of fixed annual Sums, it shall be lawful, by the Authority and in the Manner by and in which the Arrangements for carrying into effect the Recommendations in the said Act recited may now be made, so to regulate from Time to Time the Amounts, Times, Modes, and Conditions of Payments to be made to or by the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners, as the Case may be, by or to any Archbishop or Bishop who shall have succeeded to a See upon any Avoidance thereof happening after the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, or any other Archbishop or Bishop who may signify his Willingness to accept such annual Income as herein-after mentioned in lieu of his present Income, as to secure to every such Archbishop and Bishop the annual Income named for the Archbishop or Bishop of his See in the same or any other Act now in force, or in any Order of Her Majesty in Council duly made and published, and no more, and any Arrangements which may be made for effecting the Purpose last aforesaid shall remain in force until Parliament shall otherwise direct.