In this Part, unless otherwise indicated—

• “advisory committee” means—

  1. a

     in relation to a diocese, the Diocesan Advisory Committee of that diocese;

  2. b

     in relation to an archdeaconry, the Diocesan Advisory Committee of the diocese in which the archdeaconry is situated;

• “article” includes anything affixed to land or a building, and a reference to an article includes a reference to part of an article;

• “building” includes a structure or erection, and a reference to a building includes a reference to part of a building;

• “diocesan board of finance” has the same meaning F1as “DBF” in the Church Property Measure 2018 (see section 49 of that Measure);

• “land” includes buildings but, subject to that, the definition of the word given in Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 does not apply;

• “the list” means the list maintained under section 38;

• “minister”, in the case of a parish in which a special cure of souls has been assigned to a vicar in a team ministry by a scheme under the Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011 or by licence from the bishop, means that vicar;

• “minister”, in the case of a parish not of that description, means—

  1. a

     the incumbent of the benefice to which the parish belongs, or

  2. b

     a curate licensed to the charge of the parish or a minister acting as priest-in-charge of the parish, where rights of presentation are suspended;

• “national amenity society” means—

  1. a

     the Ancient Monuments Society,

  2. b

     the Council for British Archaeology,

  3. c

     the Georgian Group,

  4. d

     the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings,

  5. e

     the Victorian Society,

  6. f

     the Twentieth Century Society, or

  7. g

     such other group of persons as the Dean of the Arches and Auditor may from time to time designate as a national amenity society;

• “parish” means—

  1. a

     an ecclesiastical parish, or

  2. b

     a district which is constituted as a conventional district for the cure of souls;

• “place of worship” includes the curtilage of a place of worship.

In the definition of “national amenity society” in subsection (1), the reference in each of paragraphs (a) to (f) to a named group of persons is a reference to the group of persons commonly known by that name, regardless of the form in which the group is for the time being constituted.

In subsection (3)(a), “parish church” does not include a parish church which is a cathedral to which the Care of Cathedrals Measure 2011 applies.

A notice, order or other document required by this Part to be served on or sent or given to a person may be served, sent or given by post, by delivering it to the person, or by leaving it at the person's proper address; and for that purpose and the purposes of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978, a person's proper address is that person's last known address.