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F1Sch. 1 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (c. 5)
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F2Sch. 2 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), s. 1(1), {Sch. 1 Pt. 6 Group 3}
Sections 7, 38.
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F6Ss. 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 I, Sch. 8 paras. 2–4, 6, 7 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2 c. 5)
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Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2Functions of Queen Anne's Bounty now exercisable by Church Commissioners: Church Commissioners Measure 1947 (No. 2), ss. 2, 18(2)
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F7Sch. 3 Pt. II paras. 1–3 repealed by Endowments and Glebe Measure 1976 No. 4, ss. 47(4), 48, Sch. 8 (Provinces of Canterbury and York)
4(1)Where any such rentcharge as aforesaid was immediately before its extinguishment charged with an annual money payment, the charge shall pass to the sum appropriated as aforesaid to the benefice:E+W
Provided that, where any such charge is vested in the holder of any ecclesiastical office, Queen Anne’s Bounty shall have power by Order to abate it either permanently or for such term as they may direct, if in their discretion they are satisfied that such abatement is desirable.
(2)Queen Anne’s Bounty shall have the like powers to abate any charge, being a charge so vested as aforesaid, on the general revenues of a benefice in cases in which the general revenues included income derived from tithe rentcharge extinguished by this Act.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C3Para. 4 extended by Queen Anne's Bounty Measure 1939 (No. 1), s. 3
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F8S. 14, Sch.4 repealed by Finance Act 1963 (c. 25), Sch. 13 Pt. IV
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F9Sch. 5 repealed by Local Government Act 1958 (c. 55), Sch. 9 Pt. II
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F10Sch. 6 repealed (19.11.1998) by 1998 c. 43, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. IIGroup 2.
Section 31.
1E+WThe Commission shall ascertain in relation to every chancel or other ecclesiastical building for the repair of which liability attached to the ownership of tithe rentcharge agreed or awarded on the original commutation of tithes under the Tithe Acts—
(a)the rentcharges in respect of which such liability attached and the aggregate amount of those rentcharges;
(b)which, if any, of those rentcharges was or were redeemed under the Tithe Acts or ceased before the appointed day to be subject to such liability, and the amount, or the aggregate amount, as the case may be, of any such rentcharges; and
(c)the identity and the aggregate amount (in this Part referred to as “the apportionable amount of rentcharge liability”) of the residue of those rentcharges.
2E+WWhere the Commission ascertain, in relation to any chancel or building, that the residue aforesaid comprises two or more rentcharges, they shall ascertain the amount of each of those rentcharges which—
(a)was a rentcharge in respect of which stock is to be issued under this Act and which was not so vested as to fall within the next succeeding sub-paragraph;
(b)was a rentcharge in respect of which stock is to be issued under this Act and which was vested immediately before the appointed day for an interest in fee simple in possession in any of the corporations or bodies mentioned in the proviso to subsection (2) of section thirty-one of this Act;
(c)was so vested between the twenty-sixth day of February, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and the appointed day as to render the provisions of section twenty-one of this Act applicable thereto; or
(d)was merged or extinguished under the Tithe Acts in land to which the provisions of section one of the M1Tithe Act, 1839, apply;
and shall ascertain, as respects each of those rentcharges, the proportion (in this Part referred to in relation to that rentcharge as “the appropriate proportion”) which the amount thereof bears to the apportionable amount of rentcharge liability.
Marginal Citations
3E+WWhere the Commission ascertain, in relation to any chancel or building, that the residue aforesaid comprises two or more rentcharges, then—
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(b)any such liability to repair related to any of those rentcharges as is mentioned in the proviso to subsection (2) of section thirty-one of this Act, or in subsection (3) or (4) of that section, shall be limited to the appropriate proportion of the cost of putting the chancel or building in proper repair.
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4E+WReferences in the M2Chancel Repairs Act, 1932, to the cost of putting a chancel in repair shall, in relation to a liability limited under this Schedule to a proportion of such cost, be construed as references to that proportion of such cost.
Marginal Citations
5E+WNothing in this Act shall prejudice the right of any person against whom proceedings are taken to enforce any such liability to repair related to any rentcharge as is mentioned in the proviso to subsection (2) of section thirty-one of this Act, or in subsection (3) or (4) of that section, to put in issue the question whether liability to repair attached to that rentcharge on the original commutation of tith es under the Tithe Acts or continued thereafter.
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1E+WFor references to the Diocesan Authority or to Queen Anne’s Bounty there shall be substituted references to the Representative Body incorporated under section thirteen of the M3Welsh Church Act, 1914.
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F14Sch. 8 repealed (1.1.2001) by 2000 Measure No. 1, s. 20, Sch. 8 Pt. I; Instrument dated 14.12.2000 made by the Archbichops of Canterbury and York
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