{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/irish-church-act-1869/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/irish-church-act-1869/section-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/32-33/42",
  "legislation_title": "Irish Church Act 1869",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/irish-church-act-1869",
  "path": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Limitation of right to purchase fee simple in consideration of perpetual rent.",
  "text": "No application under the Act of the session of the third and fourth years of King \"William the Fourth, chapter thirty-seven, and the Acts amending the same, or any of them, by any immediate or inferior tenants, for the purchase or conveyance of the fee simple and inheritance of any lands, shall he made after the expiration of three years from the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, hut save as aforesaid nothing in this Act contained shall prejudice or affect the right of any such immediate or inferior tenant to purchase or have such conveyance of the fee simple and inheritance as aforesaid :\nIn any case in which by any of the provisions of the said Acts it is required that anything relating to any such purchase or conveyance, or to the renewal of any lease, shall he done by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland, such provision shall be construed as if the Commissioners hereby constituted were named therein instead of such Ecclesiastical Commissioners.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/32-33/42/section/31",
    "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."
}