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Clergy Residences Repair Act 1776

The Clergy Residences Repair Act 1776 (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]

Legacy

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

Notes

  1. ^ 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.