Glebe Loan (Ireland) Act 1870
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1870 c. 112 |
| Year | 1870 |
Glebe Loan (Ireland) Act, 1870
(33 & 34 Vict.) 112.
An Act to amend the Act of the first and second years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, chapter thirty-three, in part, and to afford facilities for obtaining Loans for the erection, enlargement, and improvement of Glebe Houses, and for the acquirement of lands for Glebes, in Ireland.
[10th August 1870]
W HEREAS by an Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the first and second years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled ‘An Act for the extension and promotion of public works in, Ireland,’ it was amongst other things enacted, that it should and might be lawful for the Commissioners of Public Works acting in the execution of the said Act to make loans or advances for works on security, by writing obligatory alone, upon the terms and conditions in the said Act mentioned:
And whereas it is expedient to afford facilities for obtaining loans for the erection, enlargement, and improvement of glebe houses, and for the acquirement of lands for glebes, in Ireland:
And whereas for the purposes aforesaid it is expedient to amend the said recited Act and to authorise the said Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland to make loans to the amount, upon the security, and in the manner by this Act authorised:
Be it therefore 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:
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as ‘TheGlebe Loan (Ireland) Act, 1870.’
2 Interpretation of terms.
2. In this Act—
The term ‘ecclesiastical person’ means and includes any archbishop, bishop, clergyman, priest, curate, or minister of any religious denomination whatsoever:
The term ‘work’ means the erection, enlargement, or structural improvement of any dwelling-house for any ecclesiastical person having spiritual charge, as regards members of his own denomination, of any parish or district in which such work is executed, or permanently officiating in any church or chapel within such parish or district:
The term ‘glebe’ means any piece or parcel of land, not exceeding in the whole ten acres, occupied or to be occupied by any ecclesiastical person while having spiritual charge of any parish or district in respect of which such glebe shall be purchased or acquired.
3 The Commissioners of Public Works may make advances to such amounts as may be sanctioned.
3. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, during the continuance of this Act, with the sanction of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, out of moneys issued to them or to be issued to them in pursuance of the provisions of the several Acts in...
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