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Repair of chancelsU.K.

39 Liability to repair certain chancels transferred to parochial church councils.U.K.

The liability to repair, or to pay a proportion of the cost of repairing, the chancel of a church, being a liability—

(a)arising from the ownership immediately before the appointed day of glebe land or any other property constituting part of the endowments of a benefice and held by or in trust for the incumbent of the benefice, or

(b)arising from the ownership of any tithe M1rentcharge which was extinguished on 2 October 1936 by the Tithe Act 1936 and immediately before that date was held by Queen Anne’s Bounty in trust for the incumbent of a benefice,

shall on the appointed day and without any assurance be transferred to and become the liability of the parochial church council of the parish in which the church is situated.

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