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Colonial Clergy Act 1874

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Colonial Clergy Act 1874

1874 CHAPTER 77

An Act respecting Colonial and certain other Clergy.

[7th August 1874]

WHEREAS by divers Acts of Parliament certain disabilities are imposed on persons ordained by bishops not being bishops of the United Church of England and Ireland:

And whereas by an Act passed in the thirty-second and thirty-third years of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-two, it is enacted that the union created by Act of Parliament between the churches of England and Ireland shall be dissolved, and that enactments relating to the said United Church shall be read distributively in respect of the Church of England and the Church of Ireland:

And whereas it is desirable to amend the law respecting persons having been ordained by bishops, not being bishops of either of the said separate churches or of the said United Church, herein-after collectively called " the churches aforesaid:"

Be it therefore 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:

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