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PAROCHIAL RECORDS ACT 1876

PAROCHIAL RECORDS ACT 1876 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Law relating to Parochial Records.
[11th August 1876]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1894

PAROCHIAL RECORDS ACT 1876 - SECT 1
Short title.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Parochial Records
Act, 1876.

S.2 rep. by SLR (NI) 1954

PAROCHIAL RECORDS ACT 1876 - SECT 3
Construction.

3. The Public Records (Ireland) Act, 1867, the Public Records
(Ireland) Act, 1867, Amendment Act, 1875, and this Act, shall be
read and construed together as one Act.

PAROCHIAL RECORDS ACT 1876 - SECT 4
""Record'' in 1875 c.59 not to include marriage or vestry books.

4. The term "record" in the Public Records (Ireland) Act, 1867,
Amendment Act, 1875, shall not mean or be held to apply to any
marriage register books kept pursuant to the provisions of the
Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1844, nor to any vestry books which contain
entries exclusively relating to matters other than baptisms, burials,
and marriages; and in any cases where such books have been removed
by order of the [Minister of Finance] they shall be committed by a
further order of the [Minister of Finance] to the charge of any
rector, vicar, or curate of the said Church in the parish to which
such records belong.

PAROCHIAL RECORDS ACT 1876 - SECT 5
Minister of Finance may make special orders in case of parish with
fit and safe buildings for records.

5. The [Minister of Finance] may, if satisfied by a report or
reports to be from time to time made to him on his request by
one of their officials nominated in that behalf by the Commissioners
of Public Works in Ireland (the said Commissioners being hereby
authorised and required on the request of the [Minister of Finance]
to obtain such report or reports) that "records" are kept in fit
and safe buildings, and that due provision is made for their safe
custody, order and permit the same to remain in the care of any
rector, vicar or curate of the said Church in the parish to which
such records belong; and may, in the case of parishes where records
have been removed by the Master of the Rolls before this Act, if
satisfied by such report as aforesaid that fit and safe
accommodation has been provided for said records, and due provision
made for their future custody, order said records to be committed
to the charge of any rector, vicar, or curate of the said Church
in the parish to which such records belong: Provided always, that
the [Minister of Finance] may at any time, if satisfied that any
records permitted to be retained or committed to such charge as
aforesaid under this section are kept in unfit and unsafe buildings,
or that due provision is not made for their safe custody, as soon
as conveniently may be, issue warrants directed to the several
persons having the care of any such record or records, ordering
such persons to allow the same to be removed from its or their
place of custody, and deposited in the Record Office; and such
records shall in all particulars be regarded as within all the
provisions of the Public Records (Ireland) Act, 1867, Amendment Act,
1875, and the orders made in relation thereto shall have the same
effect, and be attended with the same consequences, as if made
under said Act.

PAROCHIAL RECORDS ACT 1876 - SECT 6
Annual reports to Minister of Finance.

6. Every rector, vicar, or curate to whose custody any such records
shall be entrusted under the provisions of this Act, shall once in
every year make a report to the [Minister of Finance], at such
time and in such form as the [Minister of Finance] shall from time
to time prescribe, touching the condition and the safety of the
records so entrusted to him, and of the building in which the same
are kept.

S.7 rep. by SLR (NI) 1954