Church of Scotland Act 1824

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Church of Scotland Act 1824 [lower-alpha 1]
Act of Parliament
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Long title An Act to amend an Act for building additional Places of Worship in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. [1]
Citation 5 Geo. 4. c. 90
Territorial extent  Scotland
Dates
Royal assent 21 June 1824
Commencement 21 June 1824
Repealed5 August 1873
Other legislation
Amended by
Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973
Status: Repealed

The Church of Scotland Act 1824 [lower-alpha 1] (5 Geo. 4. c. 90), sometimes referred to as the Church Building (Scotland) Act 1824, [2] was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The whole act was repealed by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973.

Contents

The act

Amendments

The preamble and section 1 were wholly repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1890. The same act repealed the words "commissioners of His Majesty's" and "of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" from section 2, "his heirs and successors" from section 14, and "the said commissioners of", wherever they occurred, and the words "or any three or more of them for the time being" from section 30.

Section 23 and 24 was repealed by the Church of Scotland (Property and Endowments) Act 1925, in addition to mentions of the payment of stipend in sections 13 and 14.

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References

Citations

  1. These words are printed against this act in the second column of schedule 2 to the Statute Law Revision Act 1948, which is headed "Title".
  2. Edmund Nicholas Alpe, Arthur Reginald Rudall, Herbert William Jordan (editors). The Law of Stamp Duties on Deeds and other Instruments. Jordan & Sons, Limited. 1923. Page 300.

Notes

  1. 1 2 The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by section 5 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948. Due to the repeal of those provisions, it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.