Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2010

6 In section 17—

(a) in subsection (1), at the end of paragraph (i) of the Proviso the word “and” shall be omitted, in paragraph (ii) the words “the Commissioners and” and the words after “bishop” shall be omitted, at the end of paragraph (ii) the word “and” shall be added and, at the end of the Proviso, there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(iii) where the sale, exchange, appropriation, transfer or reconveyance takes place in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (1A), the consent of the Commissioners”;

(b) after subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(1A) The circumstances referred to in paragraph (iii) of the Proviso to subsection (1) are that a person who is a connected person within the meaning of section 13(1B) or a trustee for, or nominee of, a connected person is a party to the transaction or that the person or body carrying out the transaction has not obtained and considered a written report on the proposed transaction from a qualified surveyor instructed by and acting exclusively for that person or body or having obtained such a report, has not decided that he, she or it is satisfied, having considered the surveyor’s report, that the terms on which the transaction are proposed to be made are the best that can reasonably be obtained for that person or body.”;

(c) subsection (2) shall be omitted;

(d) in subsection (3)(b), for the words “Commissioners are” there shall be substituted the words “diocesan board of finance is” and for the word “Commissioners”, in the second place where it occurs, there shall be substituted the words “diocesan board of finance”; and

(e) in subsection (4), for the word “Commissioners”, in both places where it occurs, there shall be substituted the words “diocesan board of finance” and for the word “them” there shall be substituted the word “it”.