§ (1) As respects the charges on the emoluments of ecclesiastical offices in the Church in Wales created in favour of Queen Anne's Bounty under the Clergy l Residences Repair Act, 1776, the Pluralities Act, 1838, the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Act, 1871, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1836, or the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1840, as amended or extended by any subsequent enactment, which are subsisting at the passing of this Act, Queen Anne's Bounty shall, as soon as may be after the passing of this Act, ascertain, and by order declare which of those charges were created for securing money raised for the purpose of property to be transferred to a county council, and where raised partly for the purpose of such property and partly for the purpose of other property may by their order make such apportionment as may be necessary.
§ (2) On the determination of the existing interest of the holder of any such Ecclesiastical office in the emoluments of his office the charge comprised in such an order as aforesaid, or the apportioned part thereof, shall become a charge on the pro perty for the purposes to which the money 568 was raised, and on the county fund of the county to which the property is transferred, and all other property shall be exonerated therefrom. In other cases the charge shall on such determination become a charge on the property for the time being vested in the representative body, and all other property shall be exonerated therefrom.
§ (3) Orders of Queen Anne's Bounty under this Section shall be made with the concurrence of the Welsh Commissioners or, in default of such concurrence, with the approval of His Majesty the King in Council given on the advice of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
§ (4) Nothing in this Act shall affect any 'such charge as aforesaid whilst the existing interest of the holder of the ecclesiastical office in the emoluments of his office continues.—[Mr. McKenna.]
§ Clause read the first time, and added to the Bill.