Church Temporalities Act, 1840

4 & 5W. 4. c. 90. s. 5. recited and in part repealed.

V. ‘And whereas it was by the herein-before recited Act of the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty, among other things, enacted, that where there shall not be any Vicar or Curate in any Parish which, or the Tithes or any Portions of the Tithes and Glebes whereof, may be appropriated or united to any Archbishoprick, Bishoprick, Deanery, Archdeaconry, Dignity, Prebend, or Canonry, it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Privy Council there, if they shall so think fit, by and with the Consent and Approbation of the Archbishop, Bishop, Dean, Archdeacon, Dignitary, Prebendary, or Canon thereof, or whensoever such Archbishoprick, Bishoprick, Deanery, Archdeaconry, Dignity, Prebend, or Canonry shall be void, to disappropriate, disunite, and divest such Parish, and all Tithes, Portions of Tithes, or Glebes thereunto belonging, from and out of such Archbishoprick, Bishoprick, Deanery, Archdeaconry, Dignity, Prebend, or Canonry, and, if they shall so think fit, to order and direct that such Tithes or Portions of Tithes, or Glebes, so disunited, shall from thenceforward be united and annexed to any neighbouring Rectory, Vicarage, or Perpetual Curacy, as in the said Act after mentioned, or shall be and become for ever a separate Benefice and Parish: And whereas it is expedient to repeal Part of the said recited Enactment, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof;’ be it therefore enacted, That so much of the said recited Enactment as empowers the said Lord Lieutenant and Council to unite and annex any Parish, Tithes or Portions of Tithes, or Glebes so disunited, to any neighbouring Rectory, Vicarage, or Perpetual Curacy, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.