(1)Section 3 of the M1Benefices (Squestrations) Measure 1933 (sequestrators may require income of vacant benefice payable by the Commissioners to be apportioned) and section 70 of the M2 Pastoral Measure 1968 (disposal of profits in hands of sequestrators on dissolution of benefice) shall cease to have effect.
(2)The bishop of a diocese may with the consent of the Commissioners authorise the sequestrators of any benefice in the diocese, if they think fit, but subject to section 29 of this Measure, to grant a lease of any parsonage land belonging to the benefice for such period as the bishop may authorise, and any such lease shall be subject to the provisions of section 59 of the M3Pluralities Act 1838.
(3)[F1Except where a period of suspension of presentation immediately follows a period during which the benefice has been vacant, the sequestrators of a vacant benefice] shall at the close of the sequestration pay the balance in their hands, as certified by the bishop or some person duly authorised by him, to the Commissioners, and the Commissioners shall allocate the amount received to the income account of the diocesan stipends fund.
(4)(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 38(3) substituted (1.6.1992) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1992 (No. 1), s. 17(1), Sch. 3 para.16;Instrument dated 27.5.1992 made by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York
F2S. 38(4)(5) repealed by Pastoral Measure 1983 (No. 1, SIF 21:4), s. 93, Sch. 9
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1The text of ss. 9, 18(4)(5), 35, 38(1), 41, 44, 47(1)(4), Sch. 5 and Sch. 8 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991
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