The Repair of Benefice Building Measure 1972 (No. 2)U.K.
4(1)The Repair of Benefice Buildings Measure 1972 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.U.K.
(2)In section 16—
(a)in subsection 1(e), for the words “or improvement” there shall be substituted the following words “improvement, division or demolition”, and after the word “residence” there shall be inserted the words “or the safeguarding of the amenities thereof”; and
(b)at the end there shall be inserted the following subsection:—
“(3)The Board shall in respect of any parsonage house in the diocese have power to defray on behalf of the Diocesan Board of Finance for the diocese any periodical payment in respect of a loan made by the Commissioners to that Board for the provision, improvement, division or demolition of that house or the safeguading of the amenities thereof and any accrued interest thereon.”
(3)In the proviso to section 20(1) for the word “glebe” there shall be substituted the words “any other”
(4)In the proviso to section 26(1), after the words “out of” there shall be inserted the words “moneys in the hands of the sequestrators or out of”.
(5)In section 31(1)—
(a)after the definition of “Diocesan Dilapidations Board” there shall be inserted the following definition:—
“diocesan glebe land” has the same meaning as in the Endowment and Glebe Measure 1976 ”
(b)in the definition of “parsonage house” the words from “or the designated” to “1968” shall be omitted ; and
(c)at the end there shall be inserted the following definition:—
“team vicar’s house” means a residence vested in a Diocesan Board of Finance as part of the diocesan glebe land of the diocese, being the designated residence of a vicar in team ministry established for a benefice under section 19 of the Pastoral Measure 1968, except a residence held uder a lease which makes the landlord wholly or mainly responsible for the repairs, and includes the buildings, gardens, orchards, paddocks, walls, fences and appurtenances necessary for the convenient occupation of the residence ”.
(6)For section 31(2) there shall be substituted the following subsection:—
“(2)This Measure shall, so far as applicable, apply to a team vicar’s house as it applies to a parsonage house with the omission of references to the patron and to a prrevious incumbent, and with the substitution , for references to the incumbent, of references to the Diocesan Board of Finance in which the house is vested and the vicar, except that—
(a)in sections 9, 12(3), 13(5), 15(1)(a) and 16(2), the references shall be to that Board only ;
(b)in sections 4(1)(b), 11 and 13(1) and (4), the references shall be to the vicar only ; and
(c)in sections 20(2) and 21(2), the references shall be to such one of them as is responsible for the contravention in question.”