{
  "bookName": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
  "authorName": "M. K. Kuriakose",
  "publisherName": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
  "publicationYear": 2011,
  "chapterNumber": 163,
  "chapterName": "1927. Indian Church Act",
  "pageFrom": 337,
  "pageTo": 338,
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      "pageNumber": 337,
      "ocrText": "SOURCE MATERIALS\n337\nthe membership of that Council or by any defect in the qualification\nor election of any member thereof.\n6. Nothing in this Measure or in any Act of Parliament shall\nprevent any person who is or has been Bishop of any diocese in\nIndia from performing episcopal functions, not extending to the\nexercise of jurisdiction, in any diocese or reputed diocese at the\nrequest of the Bishop thereof.\n7. This Measure shall come into operation on a date to be\nfixed by His Majesty in Council, but no date shall be so fixed unless\nand until an Act of Parliament is passed providing for the repeal of\nPart X of the Government of India Act so far as it relates to the\nChurch of England.\n8. This Measure may be cited as the Indian Church Measure,\n1927.\n163. INDIAN CHURCH ACT (1927 A.D.)\nOn 22nd December 1927, the British Parliament acted in conse-\nquence of the Indian Church Measure already passed by the National\nAssembly of the Church of England. Some of the provisions of the\nIndian Church Act are reproduced here. Cited in C. J. Grimes,\nTowards an Indian Church, pp. 209-218.\nAn Act to make provision incidental to and consequential on\nthe dissolution of the legal union between the Church of England\nand the Church of England in India. (22nd December 1927).\nWhereas by the Indian Church Measure, 1927, provision is\nmade for the dissolution of the legal union between the Church\nof England and the Church of England in India:\nAnd whereas for the purpose of giving effect to certain changes\nconsequential on the said Measure it is expedient that the provi-\nsions hereinafter contained should be enacted by Parliament:\nBe it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty,\nby and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and\ntemporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled,\nand by the authority of the same, as follows:\n2. As from the date of severance-\n(iii) No person shall be appointed or nominated by His\nMajesty by virtue of any any existing right of patronage, appointment\nor nomination to any bishopric in the Indian Church;\n(iv) Every ecclesiastical corporation of the Indian Church\nwhether sole or aggregate shall be dissolved...\nH.C.I.-22",
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      "pageNumber": 338,
      "ocrText": "338\nHISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA\n3. Save as expressly provided in this Act or in rules made\nthereunder:\n(i) Notwithstanding any defects or informalities in the\ndocuments or proceedings, it is declared that where any church or\nburial ground has been consecrated before the commencement of\nthis Act with the approval or at the request of a competent civil\nauthority and the site thereof was at the date of the sentence of\nconsecration and has ever since remained vested in the Crown\nsuch consecration shall be deemed to have conferred upon the\nIndian Church and upon its officials and members respectively such\nrights of possession, control, and user of the site and buildings\n(if any) as they respectively would have had if prior to the pronoun-\ncing of the sentence of consecration the site and buildings had been\nconveyed or assured to a person or persons who hold the same\non behalf or in trust for the Indian Church:\n(ii) The Indian Church and the officials and members\nthereof respectively shall have and be entitled to exercise, after\nthe date of severance, all such rights of possession, control and user\nof the site and buildings (if any) of any consecrated church or\nburial ground as the Indian Church and the officials and members\nthereof respectively had immediately prior to that date and all\nreferences to the United Church of England and Ireland', 'the\nChurch of England' or 'the Church of England in India' (whether\nsuch terms are used with or without the addition of the words\n'as by law established') in any petition or sentence of consecra-\ntion or in any conveyance or declaration of dedication of the site\nof any such church or burial ground shall be construed as refe-\nrences to the Indian Church...\n5. The Governor General of India in Council, with the sanction\nof the Secretary of the State in Council of India and, save as by\nrules expressly provided, with the concurrence of the Bishop of\nCalcutta, may make rules-\n(i) Regulating the licensing, posting, discipline, ministra-\ntions, duties and supervision of chaplains;\n(ii) Providing for episcopal ministrations and the making\nof grants out of the revenues of India in respect thereof;\n(iii) Regulating the removal of churches from and the addi-\ntion of churches to the list contained in the Second Schedule to\nthis Act, and the transfer of churches from one Part or sub-divi-\nsion of a Part of the list to another Part or sub-division;\n(iv) Making provision for vesting any Maintained Chur-\nches, and the goods and ornaments thereof, in the Indian Church\nTrustees, or in any other person or persons, subject to any condi-\ntions that may be prescribed regarding the use of the churches while\nso vested;...",
      "status": "completed"
    }
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