Land Registration Act 1925

99 Land belonging to benefices.

(1) Where the incumbent of a benefice and his successors are the registered proprietors of land—

(i) No disposition thereof shall be registered unless a certificate in the prescribed form has been obtained—

(a) in case of sales under the [1 & 2 Vict. c. 23.] Parsonages Acts, 1838, or the [2 & 3 Vict. c. 49.] Church Building Act, 1839, or any Acts amending or extending the same respectively, from Queen Anne's Bounty; or

(b) in case of sales under the [51 & 52 Vict. c. 20.] Glebe Lands Act, 1888, or any Acts amending or extending the same, from the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries; or

(c) in any other case from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners;

(ii) No hen shall be created by deposit of the land certificate, and an inhibition shall be placed on the register and on the land certificate accordingly.

The production of a certificate from any of the above-mentioned bodies shall be a sufficient authority to the registrar to register the disposition in question, and it shall be the duty of the proper body to grant such certificate in all cases in which the facts admit thereof.

(2) On the registration of the incumbent of a benefice and his successors as the proprietors of a legal estate in land, if it is certified by Queen Anne's Bounty, or otherwise appears, that the land was originally purchased by Queen Anne's Bounty or was otherwise appropriated or annexed by or with the consent or the concurrence of Queen Anne's Bounty to the benefice for the augmentation thereof, the registrar shall enter a note to that effect on the register.

(3) Where the incumbent of a benefice is entitled to indemnity under the provisions of this Act, the money shall be paid to Queen Anne's Bounty and appropriated by them to the benefice.

(4) " Benefice " in this section includes all rectories with cure of souls, vicarages, perpetual curacies, donatives, endowed public chapels and parochial chapelries, and chapelries or districts belonging, or reputed to belong, or annexed, or reputed to be annexed, to any church or chapel.