Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph (g) of subsection (1) of section thirty-four of the principal Act, and without prejudice to anything therein contained, the trustees or other persons by whom any churchyard forming part of the statutory properties and endowments of a parish quoad sacra or connected with a parliamentary church is held, or the General Trustees if any such churchyard shall have become vested in them, may by notice in writing require the local authority to take over such churchyard, and as from the date of such notice such churchyard shall, without the necessity of any further conveyance, be transferred to and vested in the local authority, and the provisions of section thirty-two of the principal Act shall apply to any churchyard so transferred in like manner as they apply to a churchyard transferred under that section.

For the purposes of this section the expression “local authority” shall as regards any churchyard, mean the council F1constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 within whose area the churchyard is situated, . . . F2