Irish Church Act 1869

45 Compensation to vicars general and other officers by annuities equal to their average income for the three years ending 1st January 1869.

The Commissioners shall ascertain and by order declare the amount of the fees or other emoluments received by each vicar-general, official principal, commissary-general, or chancellor, or registrar or joint registrar of any diocese or united dioceses or any peculiar or exempt jurisdiction in Ireland, or by the registrar of any cathedral corporation, or by the auditor appointed under the said Act of the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter fifty-four, on an average of the three years ending the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and of which they may be deprived by this Act, and shall, as from the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, out of any funds for the time being in the hands of the Commissioners under the provisions of this Act, pay to each such vicar-general, official principal, commissary-general, chancellor, or registrar, and auditor respectively during his life an annuity equal to the average amount of his fees and other emoluments ascertained as aforesaid, and shall also pay to each such officer the amount of any fees of which he shall show to the satisfaction of the Commissioners that he has been actually deprived during the interval between the passing of this Act and the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one by virtue of the provisions of this Act : Provided always, that in any case where a deputy registrar shall for five years before the passing of this Act have discharged the duty of the office of registrar, such deputy registrar shall receive from the Commissioners such sum by way of compensation for the loss of his office as the Commissioners shall think right, and such sum shall be deducted from the amount payable under this Act to the principal registrar; provided further, that it shall he lawful for such commissioners to grant to all managing and other clerks who have been continuously employed in the office of the said provincial or diocesan registry for five years or upwards immediately before the passing of this Act, and who may sustain any loss of emolument by reason of the passing of the same, such reasonable allowance as the said Commissioners may deem just and proper.