{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/irish-church-act-1869/section-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/irish-church-act-1869/section-14.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/32-33/42",
  "legislation_title": "Irish Church Act 1869",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/irish-church-act-1869",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Compensation to ecclesiastical persons other than curates.",
  "text": "The Commissioners shall, as soon as may be after the passing of this Act, ascertain and declare by order the amount of yearly income of which the holder of any archbishopric, bishopric, benefice, or cathedral preferment in or connected with the said Church will be deprived by virtue of this Act, after deducting all rates and taxes, salaries of curates found by the Commissioners on inquiry as authorized by the fifteenth section of this Act to be permanent curates, payments to diocesan schoolmasters, and other outgoings to which such holder is liable by law, but not deducting income or property tax, and the commissioners shall have regard to the prospective increase (if any) of such income by the falling in or cessation of charges thereon; and the Commissioners shall, as from the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, pay each year to every such holder so long as he lives and continues to discharge such duties in respect of his said archbishopric, bishopric, benefice, or preferment as he was accustomed to discharge, or would, if this Act had not passed, have been liable to discharge, or any other spiritual duties in Ireland which may be substituted for them, with his own consent, and with the consent of the representative body of the said Church hereinafter mentioned, or, if not discharging such duties, shall be disabled from so doing by age, sickness, or permanent infirmity, or by any cause other than his own wilful default, an annuity equal to the amount of yearly income so ascertained as aforesaid: Provided that no deduction shall, in the case of any incumbency, be made in respect of a curate's salary under this section unless a deduction for curate's salary has been made in the case of the same incumbency by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland during five years next preceding the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine; and provided always, that where deduction has been made under this section in respect of the salary of a curate, and the salary of such curate ceases otherwise than by commutation under this Act in the lifetime of the person in ascertaining whose yearly income such salary has been deducted as aforesaid, the Commissioners shall thenceforth pay to such person, so long as he lives and continues to discharge the duties of his office, a further annuity equal to the amount of such curate's salary, subject to the provisions for commutation herein-after contained.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/32-33/42/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:56:33.086775+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}