Tithe Act 1936

9 Register of annuities and of lands in respect of which they are charged.

(1) As soon as may be after the appointed day, the Commission shall determine in relation to every district the amount of each annuity charged in respect of land in the district and the land in respect of which each such annuity is charged, and shall prepare a register specifying the amount of each such annuity and indicating by reference to a map the land in respect of which it is charged, and, after giving to the owners of land in the district an opportunity of inspecting the register and map and after making any amendments therein which in accordance with information furnished to them by such owners or otherwise in their possession appear to them to be requisite, shall seal two copies thereof, of which one shall be deposited at the principal office of the Commission and the other shall be deposited at such place in, or in the neighbourhood of, the district as the Commission may direct.

(2) Where under the subsequent provisions of this Act an annuity charged in respect of land in a district in respect of which an annuities register has been sealed is extinguished or reduced in amount, or a substituted annuity is charged in respect of land in such a district, the Commission shall forthwith make such consequential alterations in the annuities register and map as appear to the Commission to be requisite.

(3) Entries relating to an annuity in an annuities register shall be conclusive evidence that an annuity of the amount therein specified was charged in respect of the land therein indicated, as delineated in the annuities map, at the following date, that is to say, in the case of original entries, at the date stated in the register as the date of sealing thereof, or, in the case of entries consequent upon an alteration of the register, at the date stated therein as the date on which the alteration was made, and shall be prima facie evidence that an annuity of the said amount is for the time being so charged.

(4) If it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commission that any error exists in an annuities register or map, they shall forthwith amend it in such manner as appears to them to be requisite.