Welsh Church Act 1914

4 Vesting of property. U.K.

(1) As from the date of disestablishment there shall, save as by this section provided, vest in the Welsh Commissioners hereinafter mentioned—

(a) all property vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners or Queen Anne’s Bounty, which is ascertained as hereinafter mentioned to be Welsh ecclesiastical property; and

(b) all property not so vested, and not consisting of charges on the common fund of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, which, at the passing of this Act, belongs to or is appropriated to the use of any ecclesiastical office or cathedral corporation in the Church in Wales, or the holder of any such office as such;

subject, in the case of all such property, to all tenancies, charges, and incumbrances, and to all rights and interests saved by this Act, affecting the property.

(2) All plate, furniture, and other moveable chattels belonging to any church affected by this Act, or used in connection with the celebration of Divine worship therein, not being the property of a private individual, shall vest in the representative body hereinafter mentioned if and when incorporated:

Provided that if such a body is not incorporated at the date of disestablishment all such moveable chattels as aforesaid shall, until the incorporation of such a body, remain vested in the same persons and be applicable to the same purposes as before the date of disestablishment.