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Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 3, 4(2)(b), 10, 11, 12(1), 13(3)(4)(7)–(9)(11), 15, 16(1)–(3)(7), 17, 29, 34 repealed by Finance Act 1977 (c. 36, SIF 98:5), s. 59(5), Sch. 9 Pt. V
Textual Amendments
F2S. 30 repealed (19.11.1998) by 1998 c. 43, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. IIGroup 2.
(1)The provisions of this section shall have effect with respect to liabilities to repair chancels of churches or other ecclesiastical buildings arising from the ownership of—
(a)tithe rentcharge extinguished by this Act in respect of which stock is to be issued under this Act;
(b)tithe rentcharge extinguished by this Act to which the provisions of section twenty-one of this Act apply; or
(c)land in which merger or extinguishment of tithe rentcharge has taken effect and to which the provisions of section one of the Tithe M1Act, 1839, apply.
(2)In respect of liability to repair arising from the ownership of a tithe rentcharge extinguished by this Act in respect of which stock is to be issued under this Act, the Diocesan Authority shall be entitled to receive a part of the stock to be issued in respect of the rentcharge equal in amount to such a sum (in this section and in the Seventh Schedule to this Act referred to as “the sum required for repairs”) as may be reasonably sufficient, having regard to the condition of the chancel or building at the appointed day, to provide for the cost of future repairs thereof and to provide a capital sum the income of which will be sufficient to insure it for a sum adequate to reinstate it in the event of it being destroyed by fire:
Provided that, where the rentcharge was vested immediately before the appointed day for an interest in fee simple in possession in any of the following corporations or bodies, namely, Queen Anne’s Bounty, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, a spiritual rector of a rectory with cure of souls, an ecclesiastical corporation, or a university or college to which the M2Universities and College Estates Act, 1925, applies, the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not have effect, but the corporation or body shall be subject to liability to repair in like manner as if the rentcharge had continued in existence and in the ownership of the corporation or body.
(3)In respect of liability to repair arising from the ownership of a tithe rentcharge extinguished by this Act to which the provisions of section twenty-one of this Act apply, the land out of which the rentcharge issued immediately before the appointed day and the owner thereof for the time being shall be subject to liability to repair in like manner as if the land had been land to which the provisions of section one of the Tithe Act, 1839, apply.
(4)In respect of liability to repair arising from the ownership of land in which merger or extinguishment of a tithe rentcharge has taken effect and to which the provisions of section one of the Tithe M3Act, 1839, apply, the land and the owner thereof for the time being shall be subject to liability to repair in like manner as if this Act had not passed.
(5)The foregoing provisions of this section shall have effect subject to the provisions of Part I of the Seventh Schedule to this Act, which relate to the apportionment of liability to repair in certain cases.
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(8)This section and the Seventh Schedule to this Act shall have effect in relation to a chancel or building in Wales or Monmouthshire subject to the modifications specified in Part III of that Schedule.
(9)In this section and in the Seventh Schedule to this Act the expression “Diocesan Authority” has the meaning assigned to it by the M4Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, 1923, and that Measure, as amended by the M5Ecclesiastical Dilapidations (Amendment) Measure, 1929, is referred to as “the Measure.”
Textual Amendments
F3Ss. 2(2)(3), 6(1)(2), 8, 22, 23, 31(6), Sch. 3 Pt. I, Sch. 8 paras. 2–4, 6, 7 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2 c. 5)
F4Ss. 2(1), 7, 31(7), Sch. 7 Pt. I para. 3(a), Pt. II, Pt.III para. 2 repealed by Finance Act 1989 (c. 26, SIF 63:2, 98:5, 99:3), s. 187(2), Sch. 17, Pt. XIV
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Functions of Queen Anne's Bounty and Ecclesiastical Commissioners now exercisable by Church Commissioners: Church Commissioners Measure 1947 (No. 2), ss. 1(2), 2, 18(2).
Marginal Citations
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Textual Amendments
F5S. 32 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), s. 1(1), {Sch. 1 Pt. 6 Group 3}
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Textual Amendments
F6S. 33 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), s. 1(1), {Sch. 1 Pt. 6 Group 3}
Textual Amendments
F7Ss. 3, 4(2)(b), 10, 11, 12(1), 13(3)(4)(7)–(9)(11), 15, 16(1)–(3)(7), 17, 29, 34 repealed by Finance Act 1977 (c. 36, SIF 98:5), s. 59(5), Sch. 9 Pt. V
This Act shall apply to tithe rentcharge, to corn rents, rentcharges and money payments which are liable to redemption under the Tithe Acts, and to land, belonging to any Government department, or belonging to any public officer or body on behalf of His Majesty for government purposes, or belonging to His Majesty in right of the Crown, or of the Duchy of Lancaster, or belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall, and in relation to such rentcharge, rent, payment or land this Act binds the Crown and, for the purposes of this Act, the officer or body having the management of any such rentcharge, rent, payment or land shall represent His Majesty.
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(2)Subject to the provisions of section six of this Act, sealed copies made pursuant to the Tithe Acts of instruments of apportionment shall be under the charge and superintendence of the Master of the Rolls, who may direct that any such copy shall be transferred to the Public Record Office, or to any public library or museum or historical or antiquarian society which may be willing to receive it, and if any such copy is transferred to any public library or museum or historical or antiquarian society, the governing body thereof shall thereafter have the custody thereof and shall be responsible for the proper preservation thereof.
The Master of the Rolls may make rules for giving effect to this subsection.
Textual Amendments
F8S. 36(1) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), s. 1(1), {Sch. 1 Pt. 6 Group 3}
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2S. 36(2) amended by Local Government (Records) Act 1962 (c. 56), s. 7(1)
(1)Any enactment or instrument whereby the extent of any right or obligation is to be determined by reference to the amount for the time being payable in respect of tithe rentcharge shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have effect in relation to any period after the appointed day as if the amount so payable had been ninety-one pounds eleven shillings and two pence for every hundred pounds of tithe rentcharge, and proportionately greater or lesser amounts for tithe rentcharge of more or less than one hundred pounds.
(2)In the case of a testamentary instrument executed before the commencement of this Act, a disposition referring to tithe rentcharge shall be construed and have effect in relation to a rentcharge extinguished by this Act as if the reference had included a reference to the stock issued in respect thereof.
Textual Amendments
F9S. 38 repealed (1.1.2001) by 2000 Measure No. 1, s. 20, Sch. 8 Pt. I; Instrument dated 14.12.2000 made by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York