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TRUSTEE CHURCHES (IRELAND) ACT 1884 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Irish Church Act, 1869; and for other purposes. [28th
April 1884] 1869 c.42

WHEREAS by the Irish Church Act, 1869, section seventy, it is enacted as
follows: "Nothing in this Act contained shall affect the patronage and right
of presentation to any proprietary or district parochial church or endowed
chapel of ease which has been endowed out of private funds, or affect the
property in any such church or chapel or the property held for the purposes of
or appropriated to the use of the same, or affect the continuance of the trust
relating thereto as originally constituted":

And Whereas divers churches and chapels of ease had been from time to time,
prior to the passing of the said Act, erected in Ireland either in accordance
with certain private trusts or under the provisions of the several Church
Building Acts for the time being in force in that behalf, and certain parishes
or parochial districts had been assigned or annexed to certain of such
churches, or were at the time of the passing of the said
Irish Church Act, 1869, connected therewith:

And Whereas the bishops, clergy, and laity of the said Irish Church assembled
as in said Act mentioned are thereby authorised "to frame constitutions and
regulations for the general management and good government of the said church
and property and affairs thereof," and they have in pursuance of such
authority made divers provisions for regulating the patronage and right of
presentation to parishes and ecclesiastical benefices, and for assigning or
annexing parochial districts to churches previously non-parochial, and for
altering the boundaries of parishes, and for the due management and control of
the property and affairs thereof:

And Whereas it is desirable that the trustees and patrons of such churches and
chapels as aforesaid should be authorised to adopt and apply to such churches
and chapels respectively, and the patronage and property thereof, such of the
aforesaid provisions and regulations as may in their opinion be best adapted
to carry out the original intention of the trusts of such churches or chapels,
having regard to the altered circumstances of the said Irish Church,
notwithstanding that other provision may have been made for the like purposes
in the said Church Building Acts, or some of them, or in the instruments
governing the trusts relating to such churches or chapels respectively; but
doubts have arisen whether such provisions and regulations, or any of them,
can be made to apply to such churches and chapels, or any of them, or the
patronage or property thereof, or to any of the districts which were at the
time of the passing of the said Irish Church Act, 1869, thereto respectively
assigned or annexed, or therewith respectively connected, and it is expedient
to remove such doubts:

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