Irish Church Act, 1869, Amendment Act, 1872

Power to tenants under leases from ecclesiastical corporations aggregate to apply for perpetuities.

12. The immediate or inferior tenants of lands, tenements, and hereditaments held under leases from ecclesiastical corporations aggregate in Ireland, dissolved by the principal Act, where such leases were renewable by custom, may make application for the purchase of the fee simple and inheritance of such lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and shall be entitled to the conveyances of the same upon the like terms, in like manner, with the like rights, and subject to the like conditions and liabilities in every respect as if such immediate or inferior tenants held the said lands, tenements, and hereditaments under leases from sole ecclesiastical corporations in Ireland, and were therefore entitled to make such applications under the Act of the session of the third and fourth years of King William the Fourth, chapter thirty-seven, and the Acts amending the same, but subject to the limitations in that behalf contained in section thirty-one of the principal Act.

[Ss. 13, 14 rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54. (S.L.R.)]