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tioned in an Act of the fifteenth and sixteenth years
of Her present Majesty, chapter fifty-two, shall, for
the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been so
ordained by the bishop of a diocese in England, and
it shall not be necessary that the bishop to whom
such commission shall have been given should have
exercised his office within Her Majesty's dominions,
or by virtue of Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent,
provided that such bishop be a bishop in communion
with the Church of England; and such commission
shall not become void by the death of the grantor
until after seven days: Provided always, that any
such act of ordination by any such bishop as afore-
said shall be subject to the same laws and provisions
as to the titles and as to the oaths and subscriptions
of the persons to be ordained, and as to the registra-
tion of such act, as if it had been performed by the
bishop of the diocese; and that the letters of orders
of any persons so ordained by any such bishop shall
be issued in the name of, and be subscribed with the
signature of such bishop as commissary of the bishop
of the diocese, and shall be sealed with the seal of
the bishop of such diocese.

9. Any person ordained a deacon or priest under
   the provisions of an Act of the second session of the
   twenty-fourth year of King George the Third, chapter
   thirty-five, or under the first section of an Act of the
   fifty-ninth year of King George the Third, chapter
   sixty, shall be subject to the provisions contained in
   this Act.

10. No admission, institution, induction, or ap-
    pointment to any benefice or other ecclesiastical
    preferment within Her Majesty's dominions, nor any
    appointment to act as curate therein, nor any minis-
    terial act performed by any person as priest or deacon
    of any of the churches aforesaid, shall be or be
    deemed to have been invalid at law by reason of its
    contrariety to any of the enactments set forth in
    Schedule B to this Act annexed, unless its validity
    shall be inconsistent with the validity of some act,
    matter, or thing lawfully done before the passing of
    this Act.

11. Nothing in this Act contained shall alter or
    affect any of the provisions of an Act of the twenty-
    seventh and twenty-eighth years of Her present
    Majesty, chapter ninety-four, intituled "An Act to
    remove Disabilities affecting the Bishops and Clergy
    of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Scotland."

12. It shall be lawful for the Archbishop of Can-
    terbury or the Archbishop of York for the time being,
    in consecrating any person to the office of bishop for
    the purpose of exercising episcopal functions else-
    where than in England, to dispense, if he think fit,
    with the oath of due obedience to the archbishop.

13. Nothing contained in an Act of the fifty-third
    year of King George the Third, chapter one hundred
    and fifty-five, or in an Act of the third and fourth
    years of King William the Fourth, chapter eighty-
    five, or in any letters patent issued as mentioned in
    the said Acts, or either of them, shall prevent any
    person who shall be or shall have been bishop of any
    diocese in India from performing episcopal functions,
    not extending to the exercise of jurisdiction, in any
    diocese or reputed diocese at the request of the
    bishop thereof.

14. In this Act the word "bishop" shall, when
    not inconsistent with the context, include arch-
    bishop; the words "bishop" and "archbishop," in
    the matters of "permission" and "consent," and of
    "consent and license," shall include the lawful com-
    missary of a bishop or an archbishop; the word
    "England" shall include the Isle of Man and the
    Channel Islands; and the term "church or chapel"
    shall mean church or chapel subject to the ecclesias-
    tical law of the Church of England.

SCHEDULE A.

SCHEDULE B.

ENACTMENTS REFERRED TO IN CLAUSE 10 OF THIS ACT.