6 Mining leases may be granted.F2E+W
It shall be lawful for any ecclesiastical corporation, aggregate or sole, except as aforesaid, from time to time, with the consent or consents hereby required, to grant or demise, by lease, for any term not exceeding sixty years, to take effect in possession, and not in reversion or by way of future interest, any mines, minerals, quarries, or beds belonging to such corporation, together with the right of working or of opening and working the same, and of working any adjacent mine by way of outstroke or other under-ground communication, and together also with such portion of land belonging to such corporation, and all such rights and liberties of way and passage, and other rights, easements, and facilities for the opening and working of all such mines, minerals, quarries, or beds, and leading and carrying away the produce thereof, or otherwise incident to mining operations, as shall be deemed expedient; and every such lease shall contain such reservations by way of rent, royalty, or share of the produce in kind, all or any thereof, or otherwise, and such powers, provisoes, restrictions, and covenants, as shall be approved by the [F1Church Commissioners], due regard being had to the custom of the country or district within which such mines, minerals, quarries, or beds are situate; and no fine, premium, or foregift, nor anything in the nature thereof, shall be taken for or in respect of any such lease.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by virtue of Church Commissioners Measure 1947 (No. 2), s. 18(2)
Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F2Act applied (with modifications) (30.10.1994) by S.I. 1994/2716, reg. 86(4)