The Ecclesiastical Commissioners (Superannuation) Act 1865
WHEREAS it is expedient that Provision should be made for granting Superannuation Allowances to Officers, Clerks, and other Persons on the permanent Establishment of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, as in other Departments of the Public Service: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: