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Ecclesiastical Commissioners empowered to advance Funds for providing licensed Places of Worship.
Consent and Approbation of the Ordinary to be obtained.
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VII. Whenever any Application shall be made to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland, for the building or rebuilding of any Parochial Church, or any Parochial Chapel of Ease, or District Church or Chapel, in any Parish or Parochial District, wherein the Number of Inhabitants being Members of the United Church of England and Ireland shall not in the Judgment of the said Commissioners be such as to require such Church or Chapel to be immediately built or rebuilt, or the then existing State of the Funds at the Disposal of said Commissioners shall render it impracticable or inexpedient, according to their Judgment, to appropriate a Sum sufficient for the Erection of such Church or Chapel, then and in any such Case it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners, out of the Funds in their Hands or at their Disposal, to expend such Sum as may be necessary for the Erection or Alteration and Repairs of any House or other Building in the said Parish or Parochial District, as the Case may be, which the said Commissioners may deem sufficient and proper for the Accommodation of the Persons likely to attend Divine Worship therein, or to fire, purchase, or otherwise obtain the Use of any such House or other Building until the Funds in the Hands or at the Disposal of the said Commissioners shall be sufficient to enable them to erect a suitable Church or Chapel in such Parish or Parochial District, as the Case may be, and also to expend such Sums as shall be necessary for fitting-up, furnishing, and keeping in repair such House or other Building, and to supply the several Matters and Things requisite for the Performance of Divine Worship therein, in like Manner as the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners are now empowered and required to do in relation to Churches and Chapels: Provided always, that previous to the Expenditure of any of the Funds at the Disposal of the said Commissioners for the Erection or Alteration and Repairs of any such Building as aforesaid, or for the Purchase, Hire, or fitting-up and furnishing or any such Building, the said Commissioners shall obtain the Consent and Approbation in Writing under the Hand of the Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocese in which such Building is proposed to be erected or fitted-up and used of the Celebration of Divine Service therein; and that without such Consent and Approbation first had and obtained, no such Building as aforesaid shall be erected or used for the Celebration of Divine Worship by or under the Authority of the said Commissioners.
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