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The Legal Position of the Clergy

Note 9 — Chapter I

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(1818) 58 Geo. 3, c. 45, s. 25; (1831) 1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 38, s. 12; (1839) 2 & 3 Vict. c. 49, ss. 2, 8; (1845) 8 & 9 Vict. c. 70, ss. 9, 17. The churches provided under the Church Building Acts and New Parishes Acts may be classified as follows: i. Church of a distinct and separate parish formed under the Church Building Act, 1818 (58 Geo. 3, c. 45, s. 76); ii. Church of a district parish formed under 58 Geo. 3, c. 45, s. 21; iii. Church or chapel of a consolidated chapelry formed under the Church Building Act, 1819 (59 Geo. 3, c. 134, s. 6); iv. Church or chapel of a district chapelry formed under 59 Geo. 3, c. 134, s. 16; v. Church or chapel built or appropriated under the Church Building Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 38, s. 2), with or without a particular district formed under s. 10 of that Act; vi. Chapel of ease constituted the church of a separate spiritual parish under 1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 38, s. 23; vii. Church of a Peel parish formed under the New Parishes Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 37, s. 15); viii. Church of a new parish formed under the New Parishes Act, 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 104, ss. 1, 2); ix. Church of a district parish, consolidated district chapelry, or particular district, which under 19 & 20 Vict. c. 104, s. 14, has become a separate ecclesiastical parish in consequence of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners having authorised in such church the publication of banns and the solemnisation of marriages, churchings, and baptisms; x. Church, without a district, built on a site the conveyance of which has been accepted by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners (8 & 9 Vict. c. 70, s. 7).

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