ANGLICAN CHURCH (PROPERTY) ORDINANCE (property)

ANGLICAN CHURCH (PROPERTY)

CHAPTER 19

ANGLICAN CHURCH (PROPERTY) ORDINANCE

To make some provisions concerning certain property destined for

Divine Service according to the rites of the Anglican Church, and other

property connected therewith.

(21st June, 1876) *

Enacted by ORDINANCE VI of 1876 as amended by Ordinance XIV of

1895 and Act XXXIX of 1972.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Anglican Church

(Property) Ordinance.

(1) The right of ownership over the church situate in

Valletta, between Piazza Celsi, Strada Ponente, and Strada Teatro † ,

built at the expense of Her late Majesty Queen Adelaide, on a site

granted by the Government of Malta, and destined for Divine

Service according to the rites of the Anglican Church, is, by virtue

of this Ordinance, transferred to this church as now established.

(2) The ownership of the registers, library, plate and furniture

appertaining to the said church, are hereby vested in the said

Anglican Church.

The said Anglican Church is in virtue of this Ordinance

also vested with the right of ownership over the tenement situate in

Ridolfo Street, within the limits of Sliema, of which Jane Trower,

by a deed dated the seventh of April eighteen hundred and sixty-

six, received by Notary George Domenico Page, had made a

donation to the Episcopal See of Gibraltar and, for that See, to the

Anglican Bishops who would successively occupy the said See; and

the said Anglican Church is moreover vested with the right of

ownership over the church which, on a portion of the said

tenement, has since, at the expense, wholly or partly, of the said

Jane Trower, or of Bishop Dr. Walter John Trower, then in

possession of the See of Gibraltar, been erected for Divine Service

according to the rites of the said Anglican Church.

The said Anglican Church is, in virtue of this Ordinance,

likewise vested with the right of ownership over a portion, and the

dominium utile over the other portion, of the lands situate in

Sliema, between the said Ridolfo Street and Tonna Street, which,

by a deed dated the eighteenth of February eighteen hundred and

seventy-three, received by the said Notary George Domenico Page,

the late Bishop Charles Amyand Harris, then in possession of the

said See of Gibraltar, had purchased with his own money and of

which he had made a donation to the same See.

*See Proclamation No. 11 of 1876.

†Now Independence Square, West Street, and Old Theatre Street, respectively.

ANGLICAN CHURCH (PROPERTY)

The said Anglican Church is in virtue of this Ordinance

authorized to hold and enjoy the immovable property mentioned in

the foregoing articles, without being bound to sell or transfer the

same, notwithstanding any provision of the Mortmain Act.

Any right or power which, by virtue of either of the deeds

of donation mentioned in articles 3 and 4, was vested in or granted

to the Bishop of Gibraltar for the time being, is hereby transferred

to the Anglican Bishop for the time being, who by mandate or other

act of the competent authority, may be authorized to exercise

episcopal functions within buildings situate in Malta and destined

for Divine Service according to the rites of the Anglican Church.

Saving the provisions of articles 3, 4 and 6, nothing in this

Ordinance contained shall affect any disposition expressed in any

of the deeds of donation mentioned in those articles where such

disposition, independently of this Ordinance, would be valid

according to law.