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22Notice of proposed dealing

(1)A DBF or management subsidiary may not enter into a transaction for a disposition referred to in section 21(1) unless it has given notice of the nature of the proposed transaction to the relevant persons.

(2)The relevant persons are, unless subsection (3) or (4) applies—

(a)the incumbent of the benefice to which the parish where the land is situated belongs, and

(b)the PCC of that parish.

(3)Where there is a vacancy in the benefice, the relevant persons are—

(a)the priest-in-charge appointed for the benefice under section 86 of the Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011 or, if none is so appointed, the churchwardens of the parish in which the land is situated,

(b)the PCC of that parish, and

(c)if the proposed transaction is the grant of a lease of land which, if it had not become diocesan glebe land, would be an excluded part of a parsonage house, the bishop of the diocese.

(4)Where a team ministry is established for the benefice, the relevant persons are—

(a)every vicar in the team ministry,

(b)if the proposed transaction relates to a house occupied by a member of the team, that member, and

(c)the PCC of the parish.

(5)A notice under this section must identify—

(a)the land to which it relates, and

(b)the easements (if any) over any church land or parsonage land of which that land has the benefit.

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