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GLEBE LANDS, REPRESENTATIVE CHURCH BODY, IRELAND, ACT 1875

GLEBE LANDS, REPRESENTATIVE CHURCH BODY, IRELAND, ACT 1875 - LONG
TITLE

An Act to entitle certain Corporate Bodies to hold Land for Glebes
in Ireland.
[19th July 1875]
1869 c.42

WHEREAS by the Irish Church Act, 1869, it was, amongst other
things, enacted that the union between the Churches of England and
Ireland should be dissolved, and that the said Church of Ireland,
in the said Act and herein-after referred to as the "said church,"
should cease to be established by law: And Whereas in pursuance of
the said Act Her Majesty was pleased to incorporate by Royal
Charter the representative body of the said Church, under the name
of the Representative Church Body:....

GLEBE LANDS, REPRESENTATIVE CHURCH BODY, IRELAND, ACT 1875 - SECT 1
Title of Act.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Glebe Lands,
Representative Church Body, Ireland, Act, 1875."

GLEBE LANDS, REPRESENTATIVE CHURCH BODY, IRELAND, ACT 1875 - SECT 2
Power to invest funds in purchase, &c. of lands for manses, &c.

2. It shall be lawful for the said Representative Church Body to
invest all moneys vested in them for that purpose in the absolute
purchase, or in procuring leases or fee-farm grants subject to
annual or other rents, and with or without fines, of lands for the
erection thereon of churches, or of glebes for the use of the
clergymen of said church, or for schools or other buildings in
connexion with said church buildings, or for other church purposes,
the land so to be purchased not to exceed thirty acres for each
glebe, or to permit such clergymen and congregations to occupy and
use the same at such rent and upon such terms and conditions as
the Representative Church Body shall think fit; and the
Representative Church Body may execute all such deeds, grants,
leases, or other documents as may be necessary for the purpose
aforesaid.

GLEBE LANDS, REPRESENTATIVE CHURCH BODY, IRELAND, ACT 1875 - SECT 3
Power to vest colleges, church buildings, &c. in trustees.

3. It shall be lawful for the trustees of any college, church
building, schoolhouse, glebe, or other real property, whether freehold
or chattel, or any personal property held in trust for the said
church or any congregation in connexion therewith, or any person or
persons in whom the same may be vested, if they or he respectively
shall think fit, to grant, assign, or otherwise vest in the said
Representative Church Body, with their concurrence, such college,
church building, schoolhouse, glebe, or other real property, whether
freehold or chattel, or any personal property, to be held by the
said Representative Church Body, upon such trust and subject to such
rights as at the time of such grant, assignment, or vesting
affected the same respectively, and the former trustees shall be
thereupon released from the trusts thereof respectively.

GLEBE LANDS, REPRESENTATIVE CHURCH BODY, IRELAND, ACT 1875 - SECT 4
Power to hold lands for colleges, &c.

4. It shall be lawful for any person whomsoever, entitled so to
do, to give, grant, devise, bequeath, or assure, by any deeds, will
or other instrument sufficient in law to create or convey an estate
therein, any messuages, lands, hereditaments, or any estate therein,
to the said Representative Church Body for any college, or for any
church, glebe, building, or schoolhouse in connexion with any
congregation or church: Provided always, that under the provisions
aforesaid or otherwise not more than thirty acres shall be held in
trust for any congregation, nor more than one hundred acres in
trust for any college: Provided always, nevertheless, that any such
gift, grant, bequest, or assurance of lands in excess of the
acreage hereby authorised to be held as aforesaid shall be void as
to the excess only.

GLEBE LANDS, REPRESENTATIVE CHURCH BODY, IRELAND, ACT 1875 - SECT 5
Power to sell surplus lands.

5. The said Representative Church Body may from time to time sell,
lease, exchange, or otherwise dispose of, on such terms and in such
a manner as they think fit, or mortgage any lands vested in them,
and not being otherwise required for purposes of the said church or
any of the colleges or congregations connected therewith, and may
enter into, execute, and do all contracts, assurances and things
necessary or proper in that behalf; and every such sale or lease
as aforesaid may be made either absolutely for a sum in money, or
for any annual rent or rents, to be made payable as the said
Representative Church Body direct, or partly for a sum of money and
partly for such rent or rents as aforesaid as the said
Representative Church Body think fit, and the said Representative
Church Body may afterwards sell any rent so to be made payable.

GLEBE LANDS, REPRESENTATIVE CHURCH BODY, IRELAND, ACT 1875 - SECT 6
Ecclesiastical persons can contract.

6. It shall be lawful for any ecclesiastical person to make and
enter into a good and valid contract with any lessor for the
occupation of any glebe house and lands,....

S.7 rep. in pt. by SLR (NI) 1954, residue local and personal

GLEBE LANDS, REPRESENTATIVE CHURCH BODY, IRELAND, ACT 1875 - SECT 8
Interpretation.

8. The term "glebe" in this Act shall mean and include any house,
with the piece or parcel of land attached thereto, occupied or to
be occupied by any ecclesiastical person while having spiritual
charge of any parish or district to which such house and land
shall have heretofore belonged, or for which it shall be or shall
have been granted or purchased or required as a residence for such
ecclesiastical person whilst having such spiritual charge; and the
term "ecclesiastical person" shall mean and include any archbishop,
bishop, and clergyman of the said church.

GLEBE LANDS, REPRESENTATIVE CHURCH BODY, IRELAND, ACT 1875 - SECT 9
Extent.

9. This Act shall extend to Ireland only.