SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5Miscellaneous Amendments of Acts

New Towns Act 1981 (c. 64)

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1

In section 76—

a

for the words “Church Commissioners”, in both places where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “ Diocesan Board of Finance for the diocese in which the land is situated ”, and

b

In subsection (1) for the words “Where the fee simple of any ecclesiastical property is in abeyance” there shall be substituted the words “ Where any ecclesiastical property is vested in the incumbent of a benefice which is vacant ”.

2

In section 80(1), in the definition of “ecclesiastical property” after the words “ecclesiastical benefice” there shall be inserted the words “ of the Church of England ” and after the word “diocese” there shall be inserted the words “ of the Church of England ”.