Places of Worship Registration Act 1855

9 X1 Certified places exempted from the operation of “The Charitable Trusts Act, 1853.” E+W

Every place of meeting for religious worship certified to the said Registrar General under the said Act of the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her Majesty, chapter thirty-six, or this Act, and recorded by him as aforesaid, so long as the same continues to be bonâ fide used as a place of religious worship, and the record of the certification thereof has not been cancelled as herein-before is provided, [F1 shall, so far as it is a charity, be treated for the purposes of section 3A(4)(b) of the Charities Act 1993 (institutions to be excepted from registration under that Act) as if that provision applied to it]; and where a building recorded and used as aforesaid is so excepted, there shall be excepted with it—

(a)

any forecourt, yard, garden, burial ground, vestry, or caretaker’s house, in respect of situation connected with, and held upon the same trusts as, the building so recorded; and

(b)

any Sunday-school house or other land or building which is certified by an order of the [F2 Charity Commission], made upon the application of one or more of the charity trustees, to be held upon the same trusts as the building so recorded or upon the like trusts, and to be in respect of situation so connected with or held or used in connection with that building that it cannot conveniently be separated from that building.

In this section “building” includes part of a building.

[F3 (2) Section 89 of the said Act of 1993 (provisions as to orders under that Act) shall apply to any order under paragraph (b) above as it applies to orders under that Act.]

Editorial Information

X1 Unreliable marginal note.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 9(1) substituted (31.1.2009) by Charities Act 2006 (c. 50), ss. 75, 79, Sch. 8 para. 2(a); S.I. 2008/3267, art. 2 (with arts. 3-17) (as amended (29.9.2009) by S.I. 2009/2648, art. 3)

F2 Words in s. 9(1) substituted (27.2.2007) by Charities Act 2006 (c. 50), ss. 75, 79, Sch. 8 para. 2(b); S.I. 2007/309, art. 2, Sch. (subject to arts. 4-13)

F3 S. 9(2) added (1.8.1993) by 1993 c. 10, ss. 98(1), 99(1), Sch. 6 para. 1(3)