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An Act to amend the Places of Worship Sites Act, 1873.
[12th July 1882]
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1898 (c. 22)
C2Act: transfer of functions (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1
The M1Places of Worship Sites Act 1873 shall be construed as extending to authorise any corporation, ecclesiastical or lay, whether sole or aggregate, and any officers, justices of the peace, trustees, or commissioners holding land for public, ecclesiastical, parochial, charitable, or other purposes or objects, to grant, convey, or enfranchise for the purposes of the Act such quantity of land as therein mentioned: Provided as follows:
(a)An Ecclesiastical corporation sole, being below the dignity of a Bishop, shall not make any such grant without the consent in writing of the Bishop of the diocese to whose jurisdiction he is subject:
(b)A municipal corporation shall not make any such grant without the consent in writing of [F1the Secretary of State]:
(c)Parochial property shall not be so granted without the consent of . . . . . . F2[F3the Secretary of State] . . . . . . F2:
(d)Property held on trust for charitable purposes shall not be so granted without the consent of the Charity Commissioners.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1953/734 (1958 I, p. 1231) and 1970/1681, art. 2
F2Words repealed by Local Government Act 1929 (c. 17), Sch. 12 Pt. VII
F3Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1965/319, art 2(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I and 1970/1681, art. 2
Marginal Citations
The said Act shall be construed as extending to authorise any person seised or entitled only for life or lives of or to any manor or lands of freehold tenure to make such grant, conveyance, or enfranchisement as is mentioned in the said Act in cases where the person next entitled to the same for a beneficial interest in remainder in fee simple or fee tail is unborn or unascertained: Provided that no such grant, conveyance, or enfranchisement made by any such person seised only for a life or lives shall be valid unless the person seised or intitled for a benefical interest for life or lives, or for an estate in fee simple or fee tail (as the case may be) in remainder immediately expectant on the estate of such unborn or unascertained person of or to such manor or lands (if any, and if legally competent) shall be a party to and shall join in the same; and if there be no such person, or if such person be not legally competent, unless the trustees or trustee (if any) of such manor or lands during the suspense or contingency of the then immediate or expectant estate in fee simple or fee tail in such manor or lands shall in like manner concur.
This Act may be cited as the Places of Worship Sites Amendment Act 1882.
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