{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/irish-church-act-1869/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/irish-church-act-1869/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/32-33/42",
  "legislation_title": "Irish Church Act 1869",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/irish-church-act-1869",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Appointment of Commissioners.",
  "text": "The following persons, that is to say, Viscount Monck, Bight Honourable James Anthony Lawson, one of the justices of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland, and George Alexander Hamilton, Esquire, shall he constituted Commissioners under this Act: they shall hold office during Her Majesty's pleasure, and if any vacancy occurs in the office of any commissioner by death, resignation, or incapacity, or otherwise, Her Majesty may, by warrant under the royal sign manual, appoint some other fit person, being a member of either of the said Churches or of the said United Church, to fill the vacancy. The Commissioners appointed under this Act shall be a body corporate with a common seal, and a capacity to acquire and hold land for the purposes of this Act, and shall be styled \" The Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland.\nJudicial notice shall be taken by all courts of justice of the corporate seal of the Commissioners, and any order or other instrument purporting to be sealed therewith shall be received as evidence without further proof.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/32-33/42/section/3",
    "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."
}