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| Long title | An Acte for Thexplanacion of the Statutes entytuled againste the defeating of Dilapidacions, and againste Leases to bee made of Spirituall Promocions in some Respectes. [b] | ||||||||||||
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| Citation | 18 Eliz. 1. c. 11 | ||||||||||||
| Territorial extent | England and Wales | ||||||||||||
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| Royal assent | 15 March 1576 | ||||||||||||
| Commencement | 8 February 1576 [c] | ||||||||||||
| Repealed | 19 November 1998 | ||||||||||||
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Status: Repealed | |||||||||||||
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |||||||||||||
| Revised text of statute as amended | |||||||||||||
The Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1575 [a] (18 Eliz. 1. c. 11) was an act of the Parliament of England.
The act was continued until the end of the next session of parliament by the Continuance of Laws, etc. Act 1623 (21 Jas. 1. c. 28), which came into force on 19 February 1624. [1]
So much of the act "as relates to spiritual persons holding of farms, and to leases of benefices and livings, and to buying and selling, and to residence of spiritual persons on their benefices" was repealed by section 1 of the Residence on Benefices, etc. (England) Act 1817 (57 Geo. 3. c. 99), which came into force on 10 July 1817. [2]
Section 5 of the act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 125), which came into force on 28 July 1863. [3]
The whole act was repealed by section 1(1) of, and group 1 of part II of schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998, which came into force on 19 November 1998. [4]