Tithe Act 1847
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1847 c. 104 |
(10 & 11 Vict.) C A P. CIV.
[22d July 1847]
'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the SeventhYear of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituledAn Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales, Tithe Commissioners for England and Wales were appointed, and by the said Act,and by sundry Acts since passed for the Amendment thereof, and for Continuance of the said Commission,the Powers of the said Commissioners now stand limited, and will expire at the End of the Session of Parliament next after the Thirty-first Day ofJuly in this Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven; and it is expedient that the same be further continued:' 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, That so much of any of the recited Acts as limits the Timeduring which any Tithe Commissioner, Assistant Commissioner, Secretary, or Assistant Secretary, or other Officer or Person appointed or to be appointed under the first-recited Act, shall hold his Office to the said Thirty-first Day ofJuly , shall be repealed; and that the Commissioners and Assistant Commissioners, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, and other Officers and Persons appointed or to be appointed under the first-recited Act, may continue to hold their several Offices, if not sooner removed by lawful Authority, until the First Day of October in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and until the End of the then next Session of Parliament; and that all the Powers of the said Commissioners, and their AssistantCommissioners, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Officers, and Servants for the Time being, shall continue in force, according to the Provisions of the said several Acts as amended by this Act, until the said First Day ofOctober and the End of the then next Session of Parliament, unless Her Majesty shall be pleased sooner to determine the said Commission.
II Confirmed Apportionments to stand good.
II. 'And whereas by the first-recited Act it was enacted, for the quieting of Titles...
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