Section 2 of the act repealed the words "so soone as it or any part thereof shall come to any Possession or Use above forbydden, or" in the Benefices Act 1571 (13 Eliz. 1. c. 20).[1]
Section 3 of the act provided that all future bonds, contracts, promises, and covenants enabling persons to enjoy ecclesiastical promotions or their profits would be legally treated as leases with the same force and validity as if they were formal leases of such benefices.[1]
Section 4 of the act declared that any leases, bonds, promises, and covenants concerning benefices and ecclesiastical livings with cure made by curates would have no greater force, validity, or continuance than if they had been made by the beneficed person himself.[1]
Section 6 of the act provided that all money recovered for dilapidations must be used within two years for buildings and repairs related to those dilapidations, with a penalty of double the amount forfeited to the Queen for non-compliance.[1]
Section 7 of the act provided that no lease shall be made in reversion, without reserving customary yearly rent, without charging the lessee with repairs, for longer than forty years, nor shall houses be alienated without providing equivalent land of equal value to the colleges, houses, or corporate bodies involved.[1]
Revived and continued enactments
Section 8 of the act continued 13 enactments until the end of the next session of parliament.[1]
In the parliament holden upon prorogation at Westminster the fourth day of February in the four and twentieth year of the reign of the late King Henry the Eighth, one act was there made, intituled, An act to continue and renew the act made against killing of calves.
In the session of a parliament ended at Westminster on the first day of February in the fourth year of the reign of our late sovereign lord King Edward the Sixth, one act was made concerning the buying and selling of rother beasts.
An act was made in the first session of parliament holden in the fifth year of the Queen's majesty's reign, intituled, An act for the maintenance and increase of tillage.
In the parliament begun at Westminster on the twelfth day of January in the fifth year of the reign of the Queen's majesty that now is, and there continued by prorogation until the dissolution thereof, one act was then and there made, intituled, An act for the preservation of spawn and fry of fish.
In the first session of the parliament begun and holden at Westminster in the fifth year of the reign of our sovereign lady the Queen's majesty that now is, and from thence continued by prorogation until the dissolution thereof, one act was then and there made, intituled, An act for the putting of divers foreign wares made by handicraftsmen beyond the seas.
in the last session of the same parliament holden by prorogation at Westminster in the eighth year of the reign of the Queen's most excellent majesty that now is, one act was then and there made, intituled, An act for bowyers, and the prices of bows.
In the parliament begun and holden at Westminster the second day of April in the thirteenth year of the reign of our said sovereign lady the Queen, one act and statute was then and there made, for the avoiding and abolishing of feigned, covenous and fraudulent feoffments, gifts, grants, alienations, conveyances, bonds, suits, judgments and executions, intituled, An act against fraudulent deeds, gifts, grants, alienations, &c.
In the said parliament begun and holden at Westminster the said second day of April, there was also one other act and statute made for the avoiding of leases to be made of such offences to be made of ecclesiastical promotions with cure, intituled, An act touching leases of benefices and ecclesiastical livings with cure.
One other act and statute made in the said parliament begun and holden at Westminster the said second day of April in the said thirteenth year, intituled, An that purveyors may take grain, corn or victuals within five miles of Cambridge and Oxford, in certain cases.
The words "masters or guardians of any hospital" and the words "and hospitals" were repealed (by virtue of section 48(2)) under schedule 7 to the Charities Act 1960 (8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. 58)).
