Welsh Church (Temporalities) Act 1919

5 Additional powers of Ecclesiastical Commissioners

(1) It shall be lawful for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners by agreement with the representative body, instead of charging their common fund with the payment of the perpetual annuity mentioned in proviso (c) to section, six of the Welsh Church Act, 1914, to pay to the representative body out of any capital money belonging to them (including money invested under section six of the [6 & 7 Vict. c. 37.] New Parishes Act, 1843), not being Welsh Ecclesiastical property, a capital sum not exceeding such amount as may in the opinion of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners be the capitalised value of such annuity, and any charge upon, the said common fund made in respect of such annuity before the date of disestablishment shall, upon payment to the representative body of a capital sum in lieu thereof, cease to have effect.

(2) Notwithstanding the limitation imposed by proviso (d) of section six of the Welsh Church Act, 1914, upon the sum which the Ecclesiastical Commissioners may pay in any year to the representative body, it shall be lawful for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners with the consent of the representative body to pay to that body, a sum in excess of the said limitation, upon condition that no further payment shall be made by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners under the powers granted to them by that proviso.

(3) Parts I. and III. of the Schedule to the Welsh Church Act, 1914 (which define the property which may be transferred by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the representative body), shall have effect as if the words " date of disestablishment" were therein substituted for the words " passing of this Act. "