Welsh Church (Amendment) Act 1938
The Welsh Church Act 1938 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It amended the Welsh Church Act 1914 to allow the University College of Swansea to be eligible to receive residue from the disestablished Church in Wales in the same way as the three colleges of the University of Wales that had been in existence in 1914.
History
The Welsh Church Act disestablished the Church in Wales from the Church of England and also partially disendowed the church as it was no longer an established church. The church lost private endowments granted to it before the Act of Uniformity in 1662, which were to be transferred by the Commissioners for Church Temporalities in Wales 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 provided that some of these endowments would be held by the University of Wales for the benefit of "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." As the three university colleges would each receive a fourth of all monies and the National Library of Wales an eighth, the federal University of Wales retained for its own use the remaining eighth.The Welsh Church Act 1938 received royal assent on 13 July 1938.