{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/irish-church-act-1869/section-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/irish-church-act-1869/section-49.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/32-33/42",
  "legislation_title": "Irish Church Act 1869",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/irish-church-act-1869",
  "path": "section/49",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Commissioners not to expend monies in repairs.",
  "text": "It shall not be lawful for the Commissioners, after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, to expend any money whatever upon any such buildings, churchyard, or graveyard as aforesaid, whether for repairs or otherwise, nor in payment of salaries of clerks or sextons of any parish, chapelry, or chapel of ease who may be appointed after the passing of this Act, or in providing any church or chapel with fuel, lighting, or things necessary for the celebration of Divine service, nor to grant or advance any money for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, except such sums as the Ecclesiastical Commissioners shall before the first of March last have engaged or agreed to expend for such purposes, or such as in the opinion of the Commissioners they may since that date in due and ordinary course of business have engaged or agreed to expend for such purposes: Provided that in the meantime, and until the said first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners to expend such sums of money as they may ascertain and by order declare to be necessary for keeping any such buildings as aforesaid in substantial repair and preservation, or for providing any church or chapel with fuel, lighting, or other things requisite for the decent performance of Divine worship as heretofore in such church or chapel.",
  "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/49",
    "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."
}