An Act to establish the Validity of Acts performed in Her Majesty's Possessions abroad by certain Clergymen ordained in Foreign Parts, and to extend the Powers of Colonial Legislatures with respect to such Clergymen.
WHEREAS by the Third Section of an Act passed in the Twenty-sixth Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, Chapter Eighty-four, intituled An Act to empower the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Archbishop of York for the Time being to consecrate to the Office of Bishop Persons being Subjects or Citizens of Countries out of His Majesty's Dominions, it was enacted that no Person or Persons admitted to the Order of Deacon or Priest by any Bishop or Bishops so consecrated, or by the Successo...