Ecclesiastical Commissioners Measure 1926
1926 No.4 16_and_17_Geo_5
A Measure passed by the National Assembly of the Church of England To amend the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Acts 1840 and 1841, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840, Amendment Act, 1885, and to make further provision for the augmentation of archdeaconries, for aiding the endowment funds of new bishoprics, for bishops
’ costs of legal proceedings, for the maintenance of Lambeth Palace, and the repair of other Episcopal Residences.
[15th July 1926]
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6. Commissioners to maintain Lambeth Palace.
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[ Church Commissioners ] shall bear and pay out of their
[ general fund ] the whole cost of the maintenance in repair in accordance with the law of ecclesiastical dilapidations of the archiepiscopal residence known as Lambeth Palace, with its outbuildings, walls, and appurtenances, and the cost of the insurance of the same against damage by fire in an office approved by the Commissioners and for an amount approved by them, and shall out of the same fund pay all rates (including water rate) and taxes (including property tax) assessed upon and payable by the Archbishop of Canterbury as owner or occupier thereof: Provided that no works of repair of which the cost is so to be borne by the
[ Church Commissioners ] shall be undertaken or put in hand without the approval of the Commissioners being first obtained, and the Commissioners shall, if they so require, have the control of any such works, and all such works shall be carried out to the satisfaction of themselves or of such competent surveyor as they may appoint.
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10. Short title.
This Measure may be cited as the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Measure 1926.
SCHEDULE
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