Church Temporalities Act 1833

Church Temporalities Act 1833
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act to alter and amend the Laws relating to the Temporalities of the Church in Ireland.
Citation3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 37
Territorial extent Ireland
Dates
Royal assent14 August 1833

The Church Temporalities Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 37), sometimes called the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act 1833,[n 1] was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which undertook a major reorganisation of the Church of Ireland, then the established church in Ireland.[3] The Act suppressed ten bishoprics and merged the corresponding dioceses, with effect from the next vacancy.

Provisions

The Act provided for merging of dioceses and provinces of the Church of Ireland, and the elimination of Vestry Assessment (church rates or "parish cess"), a cause of grievance in the Tithe War, although disturbance persisted until the Tithe Commutation Act 1838.

Footnotes

  1. ^ The short title in the Republic of Ireland is Church Temporalities Act 1833, assigned by the Statute Law Revision Act 2007.[1] The description "Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act 1833" was used in Hansard.[2] The long title is "An Act to alter and amend the Laws relating to the Temporalities of the Church in Ireland."

Sources

  • "Church Temporalities Act, 1833". Irish Statute Book. Retrieved 21 November 2014.

References

  1. ^ "Statute Law Revision Act 2007, Schedule 1". Irish Statute Book. pp. Schedule 1, Part 4. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Index: Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act 1833". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  3. ^ Boyd Hilton, A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England. 1783-1846 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), p. 468.