An Act to make better Provision for the Spiritual Care of populous Parishes.
[28th July 1843]
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)
C2Preamble repealed by New Parishes Measure 1943 (No. 1), Sch.
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 1–5, 7–24 and 26 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. 1 Pt. VII
. . . F2 All the same and the like rights and powers of ownership as are possessed and enjoyed respecting and over any lands, tithes, rent-charges, tenements, or other hereditaments whatsoever by any absolute owner thereof shall be enjoyed by the said commissioners with respect to and over all or any lands, tithes, rent-charges, tenements, and other hereditaments vested and liable to be vested in them by or under the provisions of the said recited Acts, and may, subject to the provisions of the same Acts and of this Act, be exercised by them, by proper instruments in writing duly executed according to law, but in the case of any such lands, tithes, rent-charges, and other hereditaments not actually in their possession, with the consent of the respective holders thereof, testified by their being made parties to such instruments . . . F2: Provided always, that every sum of money received as the consideration or purchase money for the sale, transfer, or conveyance by the said commissioners of any of such lands, tithes, tenements, or other hereditaments, or of any estate or interest therein, and also every sum of money received by them as the foregift or fine for the granting or renewing of any lease, shall . . . F2 be applied by them, so soon as conveniently may be after the receipt thereof, in the purchase of lands, tithes, rent-charges, tenements, or other hereditaments, or of some estate or interest therein, and shall in the meantime be invested in some government or parliamentary stock or other public securities in England, the said commissioners being at liberty to apply the interest and dividends of such stock or securities, and the rents and profits of such lands, rent-charges, tithes, tenements, and other hereditaments, to the purposes of the said recited Acts or of this Act.
Textual Amendments
F2Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. VII
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C3The “said commissioners” means the Church Commissioners
C4The “said recited Acts” means the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840 (c. 113) and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1841 (c. 39)
Textual Amendments
F3Ss. 1–5, 7–24 and 26 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. 1 Pt. VII
Textual Amendments
F4S. 25 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67)
Textual Amendments
F5Ss. 1–5, 7–24 and 26 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. 1 Pt. VII
Textual Amendments
F6S. 27 repealed by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1874 (c. 96)