21 Provisions as to tithe rentcharge vested in owner of land charged. E+W
(1)Where immediately before the appointed day a tithe rentcharge and the whole of the land out of which it issues are vested in the same person, having been so vested on the twenty-sixth day of February, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and continuously thereafter, the provisions of this Act, other than the provisions of sections one and thirty-one thereof, shall not have effect in relation to that rentcharge or, so far as regards provisions relating to that rentcharge, to that land.
(2)For the purposes of this section a tithe rentcharge and the land out of which it issued shall be deemed to have been vested in the same person at any date—
(a)in any case, if the legal estate in fee simple in the rentcharge and in the land respectively were vested in the same person at that date, and, where any other estate or interest, whether legal or equitable, vested in any person was then subsisting in the rentcharge, if the like estate or interest was then subsisting in the land and was vested in that person; or
(b)in the case of a rentcharge the fee simple in possession whereof was vested in Queen Anne’s Bounty by the Tithe M1Act, 1925, if the land was at that date land belonging to the benefice for the incumbent of which, or belonging to the ecclesiastical corporation for which, the rentcharge was held in trust;
and not otherwise.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 21 extended by Tithe Act 1951 (c. 62), s. 6
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