Tithe Act 1951

Provisions as to annuities registers E+W+S+N.I.

1 Repeal of provision for registers of annuities for all districts, and substituted provision as to selected districts. E+W+S+N.I.

(1)—(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(6) The specification in a sealed annuities register of an amount as that of an annuity charged at the date of the sealing of the register, together with the indication in the map referred to therein of land as that in respect of which that annuity was then charged, shall be treated as conclusive evidence that an annuity of that amount was then charged, and that it was charged in respect of that land, unless it is shown that subsection (5) of this section was not observed as to the matter in question, and shall be treated as conclusive evidence that it was not charged in respect of any other land.

(7) A sealed annuities register for any district shall be treated as conclusive evidence that no annuity other than those particulars whereof are comprised in the register was charged in respect of any land in the district at the date of the sealing of the register.

(8) A sealed annuities register or the map referred to therein may be varied by the Commission for correcting any clerical mistake therein, or any error therein arising from any accidental slip or omission, but not otherwise.

(9) An annuities register and the map referred to therein shall when sealed be deposited at the principal office of the Commission.

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(11) Where the Commission are satisfied in the case of any district that there is no annuity charged in respect of any land in the district, they may make and seal a declaration of that fact, and a declaration as to any district sealed under this subsection shall be conclusive evidence of that fact.

Any such declaration shall when sealed be deposited at the principal office of the Commission.

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Amendments (Textual)

F1 Ss. 1(1)–(5)(10), 2–5, 10(9), Sch. 1 repealed by Finance Act 1977 (c. 36, SIF 98:5), s. 59(5), Sch. 9 Pt. V