Irish Church Act Amendment Act 1881
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Irish Church Act Amendment Act, 1881
(44 & 45 Vict.) CHAPTER 71.
An Act to make provision for the future administration of the Property and the performance of the Duties vested in the Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland.
[27th August 1881]
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 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as theIrish Church Act Amendment Act, 1881.
2 Dissolution of Church Temporalities Commission.
2. On a day to be fixed by the Lord Lieutenant, by Order in Council, the Corporation of the Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland shall, notwithstanding anything contained in any Expiring Laws Continuance Act, be dissolved. Such order shall not be made unless a corporate body under the title of ‘the Irish Land Commission,’ to whom the property vested in the Commissioners of Church Temporalities may be transferred under this Act, has previously been constituted by statute.
On the dissolution of the said Corporation the following provisions shall take effect with relation to the property belonging to them as such Corporation, and with respect to their powers under the Irish Church Act, 1869:
(1) (1.) All lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and every estate and interest therein, and all fixtures and furniture belonging to the Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland in their capacity as such Commissioners, shall, without any conveyance or assignment thereof, be vested in the Irish Land Commission, to be held for the same uses, trusts, and purposes for which the same were held respectively previous to the passing of this Act. The house No. 24, Upper Merrion Street, in the city of Dublin, now occupied as an office by the Commissioners of Church Temporalities, and all fixtures and furniture therein, may be used by the Irish Land Commission for any of the purposes for which the said Land Commission is constituted. The said Irish Land Commission shall be entitled to the benefits of all covenants, conditions, or agreements in relation to the premises so transferred, express or implied, and to maintain all actions, suits, and other proceedings grounded thereon in their own name; and, the said Commission shall in like manner be liable to all payments, reservations,...
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