Clergy Residences Repair Act 1776

Clergy Residences Repair Act 1776 ^[a]

Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act to promote the Residence of the Parochial Clergy, by making Provision for the more speedy and effectual building, re-building, repairing or purchasing Houses, and other necessary Buildings and Tenements, for the Use of their Benefices.
Citation	17 Geo. 3. c. 53
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	6 June 1777
Commencement	24 June 1777 [b]
Other legislation
Amended by	Parsonages Measure 1938 (No. 3) Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1971 Endowments and Glebe Measure 1976 (No. 4)
Status: Partially repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended
Text of the Clergy Residences Repair Act 1776 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

The Clergy Residences Repair Act 1776 (17 Geo. 3. c. 53), also known as the Gilbert Act, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that improved the regulation of the building of clergy houses. ^[1]

Legacy

The Select Committee on Temporary Laws described this act as a Consolidation Act. ^[2]

Notes

1. Section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the Short Titles Act 1896. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
2. Section 1.

References

1. Britain, Great (1775). The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh Parliament of Great Britain, Anno 1761 [continued to 1806]. By Danby Pickering. Vol. 31. J. Bentham. pp. 399–417.
2. Commons, Great Britain Parliament House of (1803). Reports from Committees of the House of Commons which Have Been Printed by Order of the House: And are Not Inserted in the Journals [1715-1801. Vol. 14. pp. 34–118.

External links

• Text of the Clergy Residences Repair Act 1776 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk .