Pluralities Acts Amendment Act 1885

13 Repeal of section 78 of 1 & 2 Victoria, chapter 106.

Section seventy-eight of the first-mentioned Act is hereby repealed, and instead thereof it is enacted that whenever the annual value of any benefice shall exceed five hundred pounds and the population thereof shall amount to three thousand persons, or, though the population do not amount to three thousand persons, if there be in the said benefice a second church or chapel with a hamlet or district containing four hundred persons, it shall be lawful for the bishop, if he shall see fit, to require the clergyman holding such benefice, although he shall be resident thereon or engaged in performing the duties thereof, to nominate a fit and proper person to be licensed as a curate to assist in performing the duties of such benefice and, to be paid by the person holding the same; and if a fit person shall not be nominated to the bishop within three months after his requisition for that purpose shall have been delivered to the incumbent or left at his last or usual place of abode, it shall be lawful for the bishop to appoint and license a curate, with such stipend as he shall think fit to appoint, not exceeding one hundred and fifty pounds : Provided always, that such clergyman may, within one month after service upon him of such requisition to nominate a' curate or of notice of any such appointment of a curate, appeal to the archbishop of the province, who shall approve or revoke such requisition, or confirm or annul such appointment, as to him may appear just and proper.