Leasing Powers for Religious Worship in Ireland Act, 1855
LEASING POWERS FOR RELIGIOUS WORSHIP IN IRELAND ACT 1855 | ||
CAP. XXXIX. | ||
An Act to facilitate Grants of Lands and Tenements for the Purpose of Religious Worship and other Purposes connected therewith. [26th June 1855.] | ||
‘WHEREAS many Congregations of Persons not belonging to the Established Church in Ireland have been and are in many Cases prevented from erecting suitable Buildings for Religious Worship, and for the Residence of their Clergymen, Ministers, and Pastors, and Schoolhouses for the Education of their Children, and from providing suitable Burial Grounds, by the Difficulty of obtaining Leases of Land of sufficient Duration for such Purposes, and in many Cases have been obliged to use for the Purposes aforesaid Lands granted or demised for Terms of short or uncertain Duration, and it is expedient that Tenants for Life and other Persons having limited Interests in Lands should be enabled for the Purposes aforesaid to make Grants or Leases for any Period not exceeding the Estate or Interest out of which such limited Interest is created, and to accept Surrenders of and convert into Leases for such extended Period any Leases of short or uncertain Duration already made for such Purposes or any of them:’ Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: |