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PUBLIC RECORDS (IRELAND) ACT, 1867, AMENDMENT ACT 1875 - SECT 4

Interpretation.

4. In this Act

The expression "parochial officer" shall be taken to mean any rector, vicar,
curate, parish clerk, or other parish officer of the Church of Ireland,
holding such office on the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight
hundred and seventy, and any person who after the said date discharged, or at
the present time discharges, or who may hereafter discharge duties similar or
analogous to the duties which such parochial officer then discharged:

The term "record" shall mean any diocesan or parochial record, minute of
proceedings, paper, book, document, or registry, of, or relating to any
baptism, marriage, burial, or ordination, or other diocesan or parochial
matter of a public nature, which, on the thirty-first day of December one
thousand eight hundred and seventy, was in the possession or custody of any
parochial officer:

The expression "Master of the Rolls" shall mean the Master of the Rolls for
the time being in Ireland:

The expression "Record Office" shall mean the [Public Record Office of
Northern Ireland].


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