Bishops Trusts Substitution Act 1858

1858 Chapter 71

An Act to substitute in certain Cases the Bishop of one Diocese for the Bishop of another as a Trustee of certain Trusts.

[2d August 1858]

WHEREAS it frequently happens that the Bishop of a Diocese is a Trustee of Real or Personal Estate for charitable or other public Purposes or is invested with Powers in relation to Charities and public Trusts within his Diocese : And whereas, in consequence of the altered Limits of Dioceses in England it is expedient to make new Provisions for such Cases :

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows :