Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2014

New Parishes Measure 1943

2 (1) The New Parishes Measure 1943 (6 & 7 Geo. 6 No. 1) is amended as follows.

(2) In section 17—

(a) in subsection (1), for the words “the Commissioners or the Church Building Commissioners” there are substituted the words “the Commissioners, the Church Building Commissioners or a diocesan board of finance”;

(b) in paragraph (cc) of subsection (1), at the beginning there are inserted the words “except in the case of land or a building vested in the diocesan board of finance,”;

(c) after subsection (1A) there is inserted the following subsection—

“(1B) Where land or a building is vested in the diocesan board of finance the board may execute a declaration stating that, from the date of the declaration, the land or building is to be held as part of the diocesan glebe land of the diocese.”;

(d) in subsection (7), after paragraph (i) there is inserted the following paragraph—

“(ia) the diocesan board of finance, if the land or building is vested in it,”.