Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2014

Sharing of Church Buildings Act 1969

5 (1) The Sharing of Church Buildings Act 1969 (c. 38) is amended as follows.

(2) For section 11(3) there are substituted the following subsections—

“(3) Any Church which is a member of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland or is affiliated to the Evangelical Alliance or is a member of the governing body of Affinity may give notice in writing to the company secretary of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland or the company secretary of the Evangelical Alliance or the director of Affinity, as the case may be, that it desires that this Act shall apply to the Church and the notice shall specify the appropriate authority or authorities for the purposes of this Act.

(4) The person to whom the notice referred to in subsection (3) of this section is given shall publish in the London Gazette a notice signed by him—

(a) stating that the Church is a member of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, or is affiliated to the Evangelical Alliance or is a member of the governing body of Affinity, as the case may be;

(b) stating that this Act will apply to that Church as from the date of publication of the notice; and

(c) specifying the appropriate authority or authorities for the purposes of this Act;

and thereupon this Act applies to that Church as from that date and has effect as if an entry in respect of that Church and the appropriate authority or authorities so specified were made in Schedule 2.

(5) Where a notice was published in the London Gazette purporting to state that this Act applied to a Church before the coming into force of paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2014 (No. 1), this Act is deemed to have applied to that Church from the date of its coming into force or, if the Church was created after that date, from the date of its creation and the appropriate authority or authorities specified are deemed to have been specified from that date.”.

(3) Schedule 2 is amended by adding the Churches specified in the first column of Schedule 3 to this Measure.

(4) The second column of Schedule 2 (as amended by Schedule 3 to this Measure) specifies the appropriate authority or authorities for the purposes of the Act in relation to each of the Churches specified in the first column.

(5) The third entry in Schedule 2 is deleted.