suap. 1] THE CHURCH IN THE DOMINIONS 1443 
as follows: No person ordained priest or deacon by any 
bishop other than a bishop of the Church of England or the 
Church of Ireland, shall officiate as a priest or deacon in any 
shurch or chapel in England without written permission 
from the archbishop of the province in which he proposes 
to officiate, and without making a declaration set out in 
the Act. Nor can such a person be admitted or instituted 
to any benefice or other ecclesiastical preferment in England, 
or act as curate therein, without the previous consent in 
writing of the bishop of the diocese. The archbishop, 
however, may issue a licence to any person who is holding 
preferment or acting as curate who has the written consent 
of the bishop of the diocese, and on receipt of the licence 
the person in question shall be in the same position as if he 
had been ordained by a bishop of a diocese in England, 
but no such licence can be issued until the person in ques- 
tion has held ecclesiastical preferment or acted as curate 
for a period exceeding in all two years. Acts contrary to 
this Act are penalized, and all appointments, admissions, 
institutions, or inductions to preferment and appointments 
to act as curate contrary to the Act are declared to be null 
and void. The persons who are ordained under the Act of 
1852 are exempted from the provisions of the Act of 1874. 
The Act of 1852 referred to bishops of the bishoprics in India 
and persons ordained by them, and to persons ordained by 
any bishop who by virtue of letters patent should have 
exercised the office of bishop in India or in any of Her 
Majesty's Colonies or foreign possessions. By the Act of 
1874, the bishop need not be one appointed by letters 
patent but he must be a bishop in communion with 
the Church of England, and the ordination must be sub- 
ject to the same provisions as to the title and oaths of the 
persons to be ordained as if it had been performed by the 
bishop of the diocese. Moreover, the Act of 1852 applies only 
bo persons so ordained at the request of the bishop of an 
English diocese, and is therefore of no importance. 
Bishops of these independent Churches can be consecrated 
by other Colonial bishops without special form and without