Clergy Residences Repair Act 1776

Clergy Residences Repair Act 1776[a]
Act of Parliament
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Parliament of Great Britain
Long titleAn 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.
Citation17 Geo. 3. c. 53
Territorial extent Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent6 June 1777
Commencement24 June 1777[b]
Other legislation
Amended by
Status: Partially repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted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[a] (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]

Subsequent developments

The Select Committee on Temporary Laws described this act as a consolidation act.[2]

Section 14 of the act was repealed by section 1 of, and the part II of the schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1971, which came into force on 27 July 1971.[3]

Notes

  1. 1 2 The citation of this act by this short title was authorised by 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.
  3. ↑ "Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1971", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1971 c. 52
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