12 Provisions with respect to certain rentcharges, tithes, corn rents, etc.U.K.
(1)Any rentcharge, tithe or payment in lieu of tithe which immediately before the appointed day is attached to a benefice and to which this subsection applies shall on that day be transferred to, and by virtue of this subsection vest in, the Commissioners for all the interest therein so attached freed and discharged from any trust or charge in favour of any benefice or the incumbent thereof and from any liability which falls within section 39 of this Measure but subject to any other charge or liability affecting that interest, and shall be held by the Commissioners as part of their corporate property.
(2)Subsection (1) above applies to any rentcharge, tithe or payment in lieu of tithe—
(a)which under any Act or award is directed to be collected for the benefit of the benefice by churchwardens or any other person and not by the incumbent of the benefice; or
(b)which arises in so much of any ecclesiastical parish situated partly within and partly without the City of London as is situated without that City.
(3)Any rentcharge, corn rent, tithe or other payment attached to a benefice which immediately before the appointed day is vested in the Commissioners by virtue of section 3 or 14 of the Tithe M1Act 1925 and section 2 of the M2Church Commissioners Measure 1947 for all the interest therein so attached shall, on and after that day, be held by them as part of their corporate property freed and discharged from any trust or charge in favour of any benefice or the incumbent thereof and from any liability which falls within section 39 of this Measure but subject to any other charge or liability affecting that interest.
(4)Nothing in subsection (1) above shall affect the powers of the persons who were directed to collect any rentcharge, tithe or payment to which that subsection applies, or of the person in whom it was vested, to recover and enforce the recovery of any arrears payable before the appointed day.