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Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1850
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[F11.(1)] Appointment of Church Estates Commissioners. U.K.
It shall be lawful for her Majesty, by warrant under her royal sign manual, to appoint two lay members of the Church of England to be commissioners for the purposes of this Act, by the title of First and Second Church Estates Commissioners; and it shall be lawful for her Majesty upon every vacancy in the office of First or Second Church Estates Commissioner to appoint in like manner some other lay member of the said church to such office, and it shall be lawful for the Archbishop of Canterbury for the time being to appoint, under his hand and archiepiscopal seal, one member of the said church to be a commissioner for the purposes of this Act, by the title of a Church Estates Commissioner, and upon every vacancy in the office of a Church Estates Commissioner so appointed to appoint in like manner some other member of the said church to such office; and every Church Estates Commissioner appointed by her Majesty shall hold his office during her Majesty’s pleasure; and every such commissioner appointed by the said archbishop shall hold his office during the pleasure of the said archbishop for the time being; . . . F2
(2)[F3The publication in the London Gazette of a notice of the appointment of a Church Estates Commissioner shall be evidence of the fact of the appointment.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 1 renumbered as s. 1(1) (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(2), Sch. 2, Pt. II, para. 14(a).
F2Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1964 (c. 79)
F3S. 1(2) repealed (E.) (19.5.2014) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2014 (No. 1), Sch. 2 para. 1; S.I. 2014/1369, art. 2
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 1 amended as to title of Commissioners appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury by Church Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1960 (No. 1), s. 19(1)
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