Section 13 Meaning of benefice.

In this Act the expression “benefice” comprehends all rectories with cure of souls, vicarages, perpetual curacies, endowed public chapels, and parochial chapelries, and chapelries or districts belonging or reputed to belong, or annexed or reputed to be annexed, to any church or chapel, and districts formed for ecclesiastical purposes by virtue of statutory authority, and includes benefices in the patronage of the Crown or of the Duchy of Cornwall, but does not extend to any of Her Majesty’s Royal Chapels, or to any Royal peculiar, nor to any cathedral or capitular preferment or dignity, nor to any chapel belonging to any college, school, hospital, inns of court, asylum, or public or charitable institution, nor to any private chapel.

In section two of this Act the expression “duty” shall mean ecclesiastical duties as defined by section two of the M1Pluralities Acts Amendment Act 1885 omitting the following words therein “and the performance of which shall have been required of him in writing by the bishop.”

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