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By the Benefices Act 1892, a person guilty of simony is guilty of an offence for which he may be proceeded against under the Clergy Discipline Act 1892.

An innocent clerk is under no disability, as he might be by the canon law.

Simony may be committed in three ways – in promotion to orders, in presentation to a benefice, and in resignation of a benefice.

The common law ( with which the canon law is incorporated, as far as it is not contrary to the common or statute law or the prerogative of the Crown ) has been considerably modified by statute.

Where no statute applies to the case, the doctrines of the canon law may still be of authority.