Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1847

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Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1847 [1]
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Long title An Act for establishing the Bishoprick of Manchester, and amending certain Acts relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England.
Citation 10 & 11 Vict. c. 108
Territorial extent England
Dates
Royal assent 23 July 1847
Other legislation
Amended by Statute Law Revision Act 1875
Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973
Status: Repealed

The Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 108), sometimes called the Bishopric of Manchester Act 1847, [2] [3] is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom with the principal purpose of delegating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England the power to put forward a scheme (a form of secondary legislation) to create the Diocese of Manchester. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners scheme containing the precise arrangements for the diocesan changes was put forward to Queen Victoria at Osborne House in the Isle of Wight, on 10 August 1847, where it was assented to in Chambers. [4]

Contents

Whilst the Act was primarily a procedural enabling device to provide the legal framework for a relatively minor reorganisation within the Church of England, and would normally have ceased to be relevant once the scheme for the creation of the dioceses had been assented to, it incorporated provisions which set the number of Lords Spiritual in the House of Lords at 26, irrespective of the number of bishoprics in England, and created the mechanism for the determining the membership of the Lords Spiritual. [5]

The bill was the subject of debate in the House of Lords at the time, regarding whether "The limitation of the number of Lords Spiritual which it was proposed to establish by this Bill, was not only an infringement of the prerogatives of the Crown, but he also considered that it was a dangerous invasion of the rights and privileges of all the Members of their Lordships' House, temporal and spiritual" as it was Government legislation which sought to control the membership of the House of Lords [6] through limiting the ability of the exercise of Royal Prerogative in the right of issuing writs of summons to call a Bishop to the House of Lords that "with respect to the Peerage of this country, this was the first time it had ever been proposed to interfere with the right conferred by it".

Preamble

The preamble, to "Church of Wales and" was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1891. [7] The words "for England" were repealed by section 1 of, and the First Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1894. [8]

Section 1

This section from "so much" to "and that", was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1875. [9] The words "for England" were repealed by section 1 of, and the First Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1894.

Section 2

This section, to "enacted that" and from "and whenever" to the end of the section, was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1891.

Section 3

This section was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1875.

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References

  1. The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by the Short Titles Act 1896, section 1 and the first schedule.  Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. Bond, Maurice. Guide to the Records of Parliament. HMSO. London. 1971. p 21. Google Books
  3. House of Lords Briefing.
  4. "London Gazette". London Gazette. 31 August 1847. pp. 3157–3160. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  5. "Bishops in the House of Lords - The Lords Spiritual". Church of England website. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  6. "BISHOPRIC OF MANCHESTER, ETC. BILL. HL Deb 22 June 1847 vol 93 cc788-97". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) . 22 June 1847.
  7. The Statute Law Revision Act 1891, section 1 and Schedule
  8. The Statute Law Revision Act 1894, section 1 and First Schedule
  9. The Statute Law Revision Act 1875, section 1 and Schedule