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Part IIIU.K. Existing Interests: Compensation: Application of Residue

Provisions as to existing Interests, and Compensation thereforU.K.

14 Provisions as to existing interests.U.K.

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15 Provisions as to tithe rentcharge.U.K.

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16 Compensation to lay patrons.U.K.

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17 Compensation to lay holders of freehold offices.U.K.

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18 Provisions as to commutation.U.K.

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Application of ResidueU.K.

19 Application of residue of property.U.K.

(1)Subject to the provisions of this Act, the property vested in the Welsh Commissioners by this Act, other than the property transferred to the representative body and burial grounds, shall be applied as follows:—

(a)[F6Property vested in a Welsh county council or county borough council by virtue of a designation made under section 50 of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 shall be applied, in accordance with one or more schemes made by a Welsh county council or county borough council either] alone or jointly with any other such council and approved by the Secretary of State, to any charitable or eleemosynary purpose of local or general utility, including the aiding of poor scholars;

(b)All other property to which this section relates shall be applied in the first instance towards payment of the expenses of carrying this Act into execution (exclusive of any expenses incurred in the administration of any scheme made by a county [F7or county borough] council) and, subject thereto, shall be applied by the University of Wales by way of the appropriation or payment either of capital or annual sums, or partly in one such way and partly in the other, for the benefit of the University and the following institutions, that is to say, the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, the University College of North Wales, The University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, [F8the University College of Swansea] and the National Library of Wales, so, however, that the ultimate share of each such university college shall be [F9three sixteenths], and of the National Library of Wales one-eighth, of the total amount so distributable, and that in applying its share each such university college shall have regard to the needs of poor scholars.

(2)In framing schemes under this section as to the application of property formerly appropriated to the use of parochial benefices, due regard shall be had to the wants and circumstances of the parish in which the property is situate or from which it is or has been derived, and of the parish comprising the ecclesiastical parish to which any such property was attached, and generally to the circumstances of each particular case.

(3)A scheme made under this section may be amended or revoked by a scheme made and confirmed in like manner as the original scheme.

(4)Every scheme made and confirmed under this section shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as may be after it is confirmed, and shall have effect as if enacted in this Act.

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C1S. 19: powers transferred (1.7.1999) by virtue of S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch.1

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