Ecclesiastical Commissioners Measure, 1926
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | measure 1926 No. 4 |
| Year | 1926 |
Ecclesiastical Commissioners Measure, 1926.
(16 & 17 Geo. 5.)
A MEASURE passed by the National Assemblyof the Church of England
To amend the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Acts, 1840 and 1841, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1840, Amendment Act, 1885, and to make further provision for the augmentation of archdeaconries, for aiding the endowment funds of new bishoprics, for bishops' costs of legal proceedings, for the maintenance of Lambeth Palace, and the repair of other Episcopal Residences.
[15th July 1926]
1 Power to Commissioners to grant not more than 300l. per annum for archdeaconries.
The limitation to two hundred pounds per annum, expressed in the thirty-fourth section of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1840, and the second section of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1840, Amendment Act, 1885, of the amount to which the income of any archdeaconry may be augmented out of the common fund of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners is hereby removed, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners are hereby authorised to make in accordance with the provisions of those Acts for the augmentation or endowment of any archdeaconry a grant not exceeding, together with any existing grant or grants in augmentation of the income of the same archdeaconry, the sum of three hundred pounds per annum, provided that the whole income of the archdeaconry, including the income derived from any ecclesiastical office or preferment annexed to the same archdeaconry, be not thereby raised beyond the sum of one thousand pounds per annum: and in any case in which the Order of His Majesty in Council ratifying a scheme of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for the endowment or augmentation of any archdeaconry by a grant out of the common fund of the Commissioners or by the annexation of any ecclesiastical office or preferment thereto or by any other of the means authorised for the endowment or augmentation of an archdeaconry shall declare that procurations, synodals, visitation fees and induction fees or any of these fees or payments shall not be receivable by the archdeacon, all such fees or payments shall cease to be payable to the archdeacon of that archdeaconry.
2 Disannexation of canonry or benefice from archdeaconry.
The disannexation from any archdeaconry of any annexed canonry or portion of the income of a canonry or benefice may be effected by the means prescribed in the eleventh section of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1841, notwithstanding anything contained in that section, whether the annexation had been made under the provisions of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1840, or the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1841, or otherwise, and whether or not the canonry or portion of the income of a canonry or benefice so disannexed be, or be intended to be, annexed to any other archdeaconry.
3 Power to Commissioners to contribute towards endowment of certain bishoprics.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners may, out of their common fund by resolution, make contributions—
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