Where under any of the provisions of this Act a notice or copy of a notice is required to be served on an owner of land and the land is ecclesiastical property, a similar notice or copy of a notice shall be served on the F1Diocesan Board of Finance for the diocese in which the land is situated.

F3Where any ecclesiastical property is vested in the incumbent of a benefice which is vacant and the property is situated elsewhere than in Wales, then for the purposes of this section, sections 8 and 22 and section 31(1), so far as it applies to section 8, and any other provisions of the planning Acts so far as they apply, or have effect for the purpose of, any of those provisions, F4it shall be treated as being vested in the F2Diocesan Board of Finance for the diocese in which the land is situated.

Any compensation payable under section 16 in respect of land which is ecclesiastical property F7shall be paid to the Diocesan Board of Finance for the diocese in which the land is situated and shall F5... be applied by F6it for the purposes for which the proceeds of a sale by agreement of the land would be applicable under any enactment or Measure authorising or disposing of the proceeds of such a sale.

In this section “ecclesiastical property” means land belonging to an ecclesiastical benefice F8 of the Church of England, or being or forming part of a church subject to the jurisdiction of a bishop of any diocese F8 of the Church of England or the site of such a church, or being or forming part of a burial ground subject to such jurisdiction F9....