Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1850

XXV Construction of 3 & 4 Vict. c.113 s.56 as to the Transfer of Estates of newly endowed Archdeaconries to Commissioners.

And be it declared and enacted, That in the Case of any Archdeaconry which shall no longer be held by the Archdeacon who was at the Time of the passing of the secondly-recited Act in possession thereof, the Provisions of the same Act which relate to the Transfer to the said Commissioners of the Estates of any Archdeaconry upon its Endowment in either of the Modes therein provided, and also to the disannexing from any such Archdeaconry of any Benefice with Cure of Souls, shall be construed and held to authorize such Transfer or such Disannexation, with the Consent of the Bishop of the Diocese, and of the Archdeacon in possession of the Archdeaconry at the Time, or if the Archdeaconry be then vacant, with the Consent of the Bishop only; and the Provisions of the same Act as amended by this Act for disannexing any Benefice from any Archdeaconry endowed as aforesaid, and concerning the Patronage of such Benefice, shall extend and be applicable for disannexing any Benefice from any Archdeaconry not so endowed, and to the Patronage of such Benefice.