An Act to amend and extend the Acts relating to the redemption of Tithe Rentcharge in England and Wales.
[22nd July 1885]
WHEREAS an Act was passed in the session of Parliament held in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled " [6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 71.] An Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales," and the said Act has been amended and the provisions thereof have been extended by Acts passed in the sessions of Parliament held respectively in the [1 Vict. c. 69.] first year, the [1 & 2 Vict. c. 64.] first and second years, the [2 & 3 Vict. c. 62.] second and third years, the [3 & 4 Vict. c. 15.] third year, the [5 & 6 Vict. c. 54.] fifth and sixth years, the [9 & 10 Vict. c. 73.] ninth and tenth years, the [10 & 11 Vict. c. 104.] tenth and eleventh years, the [23 & 24 Vict. c. 93.] twenty-third and twenty-fourth years, the [36 & 37 Vict. c. 42.] thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years, and the [41 & 42 Vict. c. 42.] forty-first and forty-second years of the reign of Her present Majesty :
And whereas it is expedient that the said Acts should be amended, and that the provisions thereof should be further extended in manner herein-after mentioned :
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :
This Act may be cited as the Tithe Rentcharge Redemption Act, 1885.
The powers and provisions of the said recited Acts respecting the redemption of rentcharge (except as otherwise by this Act is provided) shall extend and be applicable to all corn rents, rentcharges, and money payments, payable out of or charged on any lands by virtue of any Act of Parliament in lieu of tithes.
Every application to the Commissioners for the redemption of any such corn rent, rentcharge, or money payment shall be accompanied with a certified copy or extract from the Act, and from any award made in pursuance thereof, showing the amount of the corn rent, rentcharge, or money payment proposed to be redeemed, and with such evidence or proof of the payment of such corn rent, rentcharge, or money payment together with such particulars of the land liable thereto as the Commissioners shall think
Provided always, that if the said corn rent, rentcharge, or money payment should have been varied by any order of justices al quarter sessions, the consideration money payable for the redemption shall be calculated on such varied amount, and a certified copy of the last of such orders or other satisfactory evidence of the variation shall be furnished to the said Commissioners, and such certified copies or extracts shall be verified and signed by the person or persons having the custody of the said Act, award, or order of justices respectively.
In lieu of the deposit of copies of the certificate of redemption as provided by the said recited Acts, copies of every certificate of redemption under this Act, sealed with the seal of the said Commissioners, shall be deposited with such person or persons as the said Commissioners, having regard to the circumstances of each case, shall determine.
This Act shall be taken and construed as part of the first recited Act as amended and extended by the several Acts passed for the amendment thereof.