Citation c. 39 | Royal assent 13 July 1938 | |
Long title An Act to amend paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section nineteen of the Welsh Church Act 1914. Territorial extent Wales and Monmouthshire | ||
The Welsh Church (Amendment) Act 1938 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was intended to amend the Welsh Church Act 1914 to allow for the University College of Swansea (now called Swansea University) to be eligible to receive residue from the disestablished Church in Wales the same way that the University of Wales had.
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History
The Welsh Church Act disestablished the Church in Wales from the Church of England and also disendowed the church as it was no longer an established church. The endowments granted after the Act of Uniformity in 1662 were to be transferred to the University of Wales, though the Church in Wales were later compensated for this under the Welsh Church (Temporalities) Act 1919. The 1914 Act mentioned that these endowments would be awarded to "the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, the University College of North Wales, the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, and the National Library of Wales." It also stated that the universities would receive a fourth of all monies with the National Library of Wales receiving an eighth. The Act received Royal Assent on 13 July 1938.
Provisions
To cover the omission of the University College of Swansea from receiving portions of the endowments, the Welsh Church (Amendment) Act 1938 was passed specifically to amend section 19(1)(b) of the Welsh Church Act 1914 to include it in the list of universities entitled to receive the endowments as well as reducing each individual university's entitlement to three-sixteenths. It also provided that the Act was to be construed with the 1914 and 1919 Acts, and that the three Acts could be cited together as the Welsh Church Acts 1914 to 1938.