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Section 13 Faculties for the same Person to hold Two Livings in Ireland not to be granted.C1

United Kingdom

And Whereas no Faculty or Dispensation has been granted for the holding of Two or more Benefices in that Part of the United Kingdom called Ireland for upwards of Twenty Years last past, and it is expedient to prevent the future Grant thereof: Be it therefore enacted, That no Faculty or Dispensation shall be granted to any Spiritual Person to hold Two or more Benefices in Ireland; and that if any Spiritual Person, holding or taking any Benefice in Ireland, shall take or accept of any other Benefice to the holding whereof together with the Benefice so previously held a Faculty or Dispensation would before the passing of this Act have been necessary, and shall be admitted, licensed, or instituted to the same, every Benefice so previously held by such Spiritual Person shall be and become ipso facto void as if he had died or had resigned the same, any Law, Statute, Canon, or Usage to the contrary nothwithstanding;

provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed, construed, or taken to affect or alter the Laws now in force in Ireland regulating and respecting the Unions or Divisions of Parishes.

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The text of s. 13 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statuteslocal and personal in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

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Act repealed (Provinces of Canterbury and York except Channel Islands and Isle of Man) (1.6.1992) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1992 (No. 1), s. 17(2), Sch. 4 Pt. I;Instrument dated 27.5.1992 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York

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Act repealed (Provinces of Canterbury and York except Channel Islands and Isle of Man) (1.6.1992) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1992 (No. 1), s. 17(2), Sch. 4 Pt.I;Instrument dated 27.5.1992 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York