Compulsory Church Rate Abolition Act 1868

1. Introductory Text

2. 1. Compulsory church rates abolished.

3. 2. Saving of rates called church rates, but applicable to secular purposes.

4. 3. Provision where money is due on security of such rates.

5. 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

6. 5. Not to affect enactments in local Acts, &c. where rates are made for purposes herein named.

7. 6. Act not to affect vestries, &c.

8. 7. Trustees and others under incapacity may subscribe to voluntary rate.

9. 8. Regulations as to persons refusing to pay church rates.

10. 9. Power to appoint church trustees.

11. 10. Definition of “ecclesiastical purposes,” “church rate,” and “parish.”

12. 11. Short title.