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An Act to explain the Act as to Suffragan Bishops.
[1st July 1898]
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 :
Notwithstanding anything contained in the Act passed in the twenty-sixth year of King Henry the Eighth " for nomination and consecration of suffragans within this realm," it shall be lawful to nominate, present, and appoint as suffragan bishop a person already consecrated as a bishop, and in that case the letters patent presenting him shall not require his consecration.
This Act may be cited as the Suffragan Bishops Act, 1898, and the said Act of King Henry the Eighth, and the [51 & 52 Vict. c. 56.] Suffragans Nomination Act, 1888, and this Act may be cited collectively as the Suffragan Bishops Acts, 1534 to 1898.
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