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Ecclesiastical Property (Ireland) Act 1855

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1855 c. 28
Anno Regni VICTORI, Britanniarum Regin,Decimo Octavo & Decimo Nono. An Act to provide that the Property or Income Tax payable in respect of the Income from Ecclesiastical Property inIreland shall be a Deduction in estimating the Value of such Property for the Purpose of Taxation by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

(18 & 19 Vict.) C A P. XXVIII.

[15th June 1855]

'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty KingWilliam the Fourth, intituled Ireland, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners therein directed to be appointed were authorized and empowered to make a Valuation of all Ecclesiastical Property, subject to the Deductions therein set forth, and to take, levy, and receive therefrom a yearly Tax, Rate, or Assessment, computed and imposed upon such Valuation according to a Scale, and for the Purposes recited in the said Act: And whereas by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of Her present Majesty's Reign, intituled and by Two other Acts passed in the Seventeenth Year of Her present Majesty's Reign, ChapterTen and Chapter Twenty-four, for granting to Her Majesty additional and increased Duties on such Profits, Ecclesiastical Property, together with other Property inIreland theretofore exempt, was rendered liable to the Duties therein enacted: And whereas it is expedient and just that the Amount payable as Property or Income Tax under the said Acts should be allowed as a Deduction by the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners, together with the Deductions authorized to be made under the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth, ChapterThirty-seven, in forming their Valuations for the Tax, Rate, or Assessment therein directed to be levied:' Be it therefore enacted by the...

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