Section 17 Compensation to persons not included in preceding section.

The Commissioners shall pay to any person holding an appointment in or connected with any church or chapel in the said Church, and not entitled to compensation under the preceding section, and who has held such office for two years before the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and is holding the same on the said day, such sum by way of gratuity, not exceeding one year's salary, as they think fit; and where the said Commissioners shall find that any such person is or may be deprived of any income derived from any property or fund vested in the said Commissioners under this Act, they may pay to any such person such further sum by way of compensation, either by a single payment or by a life annuity, as they shall, with the consent of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, determine.