New Parishes Acts and Church Building Acts Amendment Act 1869
New Parishes Acts and Church Building Acts Amendment Act, 1869
(32 & 33 Vict.) CHAP. 94.
An Act to amend the New Parishes Acts and Church Building Acts.
[11th August 1869]
Be it 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:
1 Powers of New Parishes Acts to apply at any time to new parishes for ecclesiastical purposes.
1. The powers and provisions relating to the alteration of the boundaries of districts which are contained in the ninth section of the ‘New Parishes Act, 1844,’ shall, notwithstanding the lapse of the periods of twelve months and five years mentioned in the same section and in the twenty-seventh section of the Act of the thirteenth and fourteenth years of Her Majesty, chapter ninety-four, respectively, or either of them, be at any time applicable to the alteration of the boundaries of any and every ecclesiastical district which may or shall have become a new parish for ecclesiastical purposes under the provisions of the ‘New Parishes Acts,’ whether such district has been or shall have been originally created under the provisions of the said Acts or any of them, or of any other Act of Parliament.
2 Pews or sittings may be surrendered to Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
2. Whenever by virtue of any public or private Act of Parliament now or hereafter in force, or by virtue of any deed or instrument, the pews or sittings, or some or one of the pews or sittings, in any church or chapel, consecrated or unconsecrated, are or is or shall be subject to any trust as to the grant, demise, sale, or disposal of such pews or sittings, pew or sitting, or are, is, or shall be the private property for any estate whatsoever of any person or persons, then and in every such case it shall be lawful for the trustees of such church or chapel, or other the persons exercising powers of grant, demise, sale, or disposal as aforesaid, or for all or any persons possessing on their own behalf or on the behalf of others any rights, qualified or unqualified, of ownership, by reason of any such grant, demise, sale, or disposal as aforesaid, or for any person or persons to whom any pews or sittings, pew or sitting, in such church or chapel shall belong, for any estate whatsoever, under or by virtue of such Act of Parliament, deed, or instrument as aforesaid, with or without consideration, to surrender and for ever yield up, either altogether or separately, and according to the nature and extent of their several rights and interests, to the bishop of the diocese wherein such church or chapel is situate, or to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, who are hereby respectively authorized to accept every such surrender, all rights of ownership, grant, demise, sale, disposal, or other right whatsoever which they the said trustees, persons or person, may have in, over, or in respect of such pews or sittings, pew or sitting.
3 Surrender to be by deed executed by the parties, including bishop of diocese.
3. Every such surrender shall be made by deed executed by all the parties to the same, amongst whom shall be included the bishop of the diocese wherein the church or chapel to be affected by it is situate, and the patron or patrons of such church or chapel aforesaid; and such deed shall be registered in the registry of the said diocese.
4 Upon surrender all rights of ownership, &c. to cease.
4. So soon as all rights and powers over or in respect of the pews or sittings in any such church or chapel shall have been surrendered to the bishop of the diocese or to the said commissioners as aforesaid, the trusts or rights of ownership, and the obligations affecting such pews or sittings, or any of them, under such Act of Parliament, deed, or instrument as aforesaid, shall at once and ipso facto determine, and all the provisions of such Act of Parliament, deed, or instrument as to pews or sittings in such church or chapel shall thenceforth be void and of none effect.
5 And pews, &c. subject as pews of ancient parish churches.
5. From and after every such surrender to the said bishop or commissioners, the pews or sittings, pew or sitting, affected thereby shall, to the extent of the rights or powers expressed to be surrendered, be subject to the same laws as to all rights and property therein as the pews and sittings of ancient parish churches are now subject to: Provided that if the church or...
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