Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1850

There shall be paid to the First Church Estates Commissioner a salary not exceeding the yearly sum of one thousand two hundred pounds, and to the Church Estates Commissioner appointed by the said archbishop a salary not exceeding the yearly sum of one thousand pounds, to be determined by the Treasury; and such salaries shall be paid out of the monies from time to time in the hands of the F4Church Commissioners.

Every Church Estates Commissioner so appointed as aforesaid, before he proceed to do any act by virtue of his appointment, shall . . . F6 subscribe the like declaration as by the recited Acts is required to be subscribed by the other lay members of the said corporation.

The arrangements with reference to peculiar or exempt ecclesiastical jurisdictions, which the said commissioners are under the provisions of the said first recited Act empowered and authorized to propose in any scheme for carrying into effect any of the recommendations therein recited, may be recommended and proposed in any scheme or schemes, whether relating to such arrangements solely, or also to any other matter and thing contained in any or either of the said recited Acts or this Act.

All the powers and authorities vested in her Majesty in council, and in the said commissioners, by the said secondly and thirdly recited Acts, with reference to the matters therein contained, and all other the provisions of the same Acts relating to schemes and orders prepared, made, and issued for the purposes thereof, shall, so far as the same are consistent with the provisions of this Act, be continued and extended to apply to her Majesty in council, and to the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and to all schemes and orders prepared, made, and issued by them respectively, with reference to all matters contained in this Act, as fully and effectually as if the said powers, authorities, and other provisions were repeated in this Act.