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Part IMiscellaneous Provisions

10Advowsons—parochial church councils

(1)Subsection (1) of section 6 of the [4 & 5 Eliz.2 No. 3.] Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure 1956 (which relates, inter alia, to certain interests in land) shall not apply and shall be deemed never to have applied in relation to an advowson or share in an advowson.

(2)Subsection (2) of the said section 6 shall not apply in relation to an advowson or share in an advowson; and any advowson or share in an advowson which is, at the coming into force of this section, held by a diocesan authority, having been vested in the diocesan authority pursuant to that subsection, shall, by virtue of this subsection and without any conveyance or other assurance, vest in the parochial church council concerned subject to all trusts affecting the same.

(3)In this section, “diocesan authority” has the same meaning as in the said Measure of 1956.