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Welsh Church (Temporalities) Act 1919

1919 CHAPTER 65 9 and 10 Geo 5

An Act to continue in office the Welsh Commissioners appointed under the Welsh Church Act, 1914, to postpone the date of disestablishment, and to make further provision with respect to the temporalities of, and marriages in, the Church in Wales.

[19th August 1919]

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Ecclesiastical Commissioners and Queen Anne's Bounty dissolved and property and functions transferred to Church Commissioners by Church Commissioners Measure 1947 (No. 2), s. 2

1 Continuation of Welsh Commissioners.U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F1S. 1 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), s. 1(1), {Sch. 1 Pt. 6 Group 4}

2 Date of disestablishment.U.K.

The date of disestablishment of the Church in Wales shall, notwithstanding anything in the M1Welsh Church Act 1914 or the M2Suspensory Act 1914 or any order made thereunder, be, for the purposes of this Act and of the first-mentioned Act, the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty.

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3 Provisions relating to commutation.U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F2Ss. 3-5 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), s. 1(1), {Sch. 1 Pt. 6 Group 4}

4 Further provisions as to Welsh ecclesiastical property.U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F3Ss. 3-5 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), s. 1(1), {Sch. 1 Pt. 6 Group 4}

5 Additional powers of Ecclesiastical Commissioners.U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F4Ss. 3-5 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), s. 1(1), {Sch. 1 Pt. 6 Group 4}

6 Saving provisions as to marriages in churches.U.K.

Nothing in this Act or in the Welsh Church Act 1914, shall affect—

(a)the law with respect to marriages in Wales or Monmouthshire; or

(b)the right of bishops of the Church in Wales to license churches for the solemnization of marriages or to grant licences to marry;

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7 Provisions as to charities.U.K.

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(2)Where by any charter, deed, or other document any association, institution, or society, whether corporate or unincorporate, is empowered, or is under a duty, to make any grant or payment to any persons or body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, in Wales and Monmouthshire, such power or duty shall not be affected by reason of any parish of the Church in Wales ceasing to be a part of the province of Canterbury or of York, notwithstanding anything contained in any such charter, deed, or document.

Textual Amendments

F6S. 7(1) repealed (1.6.2010 in accordance with art. 1 of the repealing S.I.) by The Charities Act 2006 (Changes in Exempt Charities) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/500), art. 3(1), Sch. 1 para. 1

8 Saving for divided parishes.U.K.

Where an ecclesiastical parish which before the year eighteen hundred and fifty was situate partly in Wales or Monmouthshire and partly in England has since that year been divided into two ecclesiastical parishes, one of which is situate wholly in Wales or Monmouthshire and one wholly in England, and both those parishes are situated in an English diocese, then subsections (1) and (3) of section nine of the M3Welsh Church Act 1914 (which relates to border parishes), shall apply to the ecclesiastical parish so situate wholly in Wales or Monmouthshire in like manner as if part thereof were situate in England.

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9 Short title and construction.U.K.

This Act may be cited as the Welsh Church (Temporalities) Act 1919, and shall be construed as one with the M4Welsh Church Act 1914, and that Act and this Act may be cited together as the Welsh Church Acts 1914 and 1919.

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