Church Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1960

3 Power to divide and improve parsonage houses. E+W+S+N.I.

(1) After section two of the Parsonage Measure, 1938, there shall be inserted the following section:—

“2A Power to divide and improve parsonage houses during vacancy in the benefice.

(1) During a vacancy in a benefice the bishop shall have the power, with the consent of the Commissioners, the diocesan dilapidations board and the patron of the benefice, to authorise the sequestrators of the benefice:—

(a) to divide the residence house of the benfice into two or more parts or to reduce the size of the residence house in any other way

(b) to enlarge the residence house,

(c) to carry out improvements to the residence house and the outbuildings thereof, and

(d) to carry out improvements to the drive paths and garden of the residence house,

and for the purpose of carrrying out any work authorised under this section the sequestrators may enter upon the land of the benefice.

(2) Where the bishop during a vacancy in a benefice exercises his power under subsection (1) of this section and the vacancy is filled before the work undertaken in pursuance of that power has been completed, the incumbent succeding to the benefice shall, to the extent of any moneys specially applicable or lent by the Commissioners, complete that work with such modifications, if any, as may be agreed by the bishop, the Commissioners and the diocesan dilapidations board, and in default of his so doing the diocesan dilapidations board may complete the work.”

(2) In section three of the said Measure for the words “either of the foregoing sections” wherever those words occur, there shall be substituted the words “ any of the foregoing sections ”, . . . F1

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Amendments (Textual)

F1 Words repealed by Patronage (Benefices) Measure 1986 (No. 3, SIF 21:4), s. 41(2), Sch. 5

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of ss. 1, 2(1)(2), 3(1)(2), 4(1), 5, 6(2), 12(2), 15, 20(4), 22 and Sch. is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

C2 The text of s. 3(2) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.