17 Sinecure rectories in private patronageU.K.
So much of the secondly recited Act as relates to the purchase, by the [F1Church Commissioners] of ecclesiastical rectories without cure of souls, shall be construed to extend and apply to any ecclesiastical rectory which shall by the archbishop of the province and the bishop of the diocese be certified to be, and shall by the said commissioners be deemed to be, an ecclesiastical rectory without cure of souls, although there shall be no vicarage endowed or perpetual curacy belonging thereto or connected therewith; provided that when any such ecclesiastical rectory purchased by the said commissioners shall have been suppressed under the provisions of the same Act, the whole, if it be deemed necessary, or such part as shall be deemed necessary by the said commissioners, of the lands, tithes, or other endowments belonging to such rectory, and the proceeds thereof, shall, by the authority in the same Act provided, be set apart and applied towards the spiritual care of the population of the parish or district in which such lands, tithes, or other endowments are situate or accrue, in such manner as by the like authority shall be deemed expedient.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by virtue of Church Commissioners Measure 1947 (No. 2), s. 18(2)