# Compulsory Church Rate Abolition Act 1868, Section 5: Not to affect enactments in local Acts, &c. where rates are made for purposes herein named.


This Act shall not affect any enactment in any private or local Act of Parliament under the authority of which church rates may be made or levied in lieu of or in consideration of the extinguishment or of the appropriation to any other purpose of any tithes, customary payments, or other property or charge upon property, which tithes, payments, property, or charge, previously to the passing of such Act, had been appropriated by law to ecclesiastical purposes as defined by this Act, or in consideration of the abolition of tithes in any place, or upon any contract made, or for good or valuable consideration given, and every such enactment shall continue in force in the same manner as if this Act had not passed.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/109/section/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/compulsory-church-rate-abolition-act-1868/section-5
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