Corn Rents Act 1963

3 Short title, extent, repeal and savings.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Corn Rents Act 1963.

(2) This Act shall extend to England and Wales only.

(3) This Act binds the Crown.

(4) With effect from the coming into operation of the first scheme under this Act, the enactments mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, being enactments superseded by this Act or otherwise spent or obsolete, are, so far as not repealed by any other enactment, hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(5) In section 191 (12) of the [15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 20.] Law of Property Act 1925 (by which payments redeemable under the Tithe Acts 1836 to 1918 are precluded from being redeemed or apportioned under that section) for the words " the Tithe Acts 1836 to 1918 " there shall be substituted, with effect from the coming into operation of the first scheme under this Act, the words " the Corn Rents Act 1963 ".

(6) Proceedings under section 30 (1). of the Tithe Act 1936 in progress at the coming into operation of the first scheme under this Act may be continued and completed as if this Act had not passed.

(7) Nothing in this Act shall affect the operation of the [40 & 41 Vict. c. iii.] Vicar's Rate in Halifax Act 1877 or the [22 & 23 Geo. 5. c. lxiv.] Kendal Corn Rent Act 1932.