Exhibit 519

Compulsory Church Rate Abolition Act 1868, 31 & 32 Victoria c. 109

Exhibit 519 · Statute

Compulsory Church Rate Abolition Act 1868, 31 & 32 Victoria c. 109

No suit shall be instituted or proceeding taken in any ecclesiastical or other court, or before any justice or magistrate to enforce or compel the payment of any church rate made in any parish or place in England or Wales.

Ends suits and proceedings to enforce or compel payment of any church rate in England and Wales.

Source: Parliament of the United Kingdom
Date: 31 July 1868
Quoted from: s. 1
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/109
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding REL-2.7: Primary record The Tithe Commutation Act of 1836 converted tithe in each parish into a money rentcharge on the land recoverable by distress; church rates ended in 1868, tithe rentcharge was extinguished on 2 October 1936 with compensation to owners and redemption annuities charged on land, and the last annuities were extinguished from 2 October 1977.