(1)Where under this Act a document is required to be served on an owner of land, and the land is ecclesiastical property, a copy of the document shall be served on the [F1Diocesan Board of Finance for the diocese in which the land is situated].
(2)[F2Where any ecclesiastical property is vested in the incumbent of a benefice which is vacant], it shall be treated for the purposes of an application to the Minister or the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for any of the following orders in which provision for the compulsory acquisition of the property is proposed to be included, namely, a harbour revision order, a harbour empowerment order, . . . F3 and of a compulsory acquisition of the property in pursuance of a provision for the compulsory acquisition thereof included in any such order, as being vested in the [F1Diocesan Board of Finance for the diocese in which the land is situated], and (in the case of such an acquisition as aforesaid) any notice to treat shall be served accordingly.
(3)Where provision for the compulsory acquisition of land is included in such an order as aforesaid, the order must be so framed as to secure—
(a)that if, at the time of the acquisition of any land in pursuance of that provision, the land is ecclesiastical property, any sum agreed upon or awarded for the acquisition of the fee simple of the land shall be paid to the [F1Diocesan Board of Finance for the diocese in which the land is situated]; and
(b)that any sum to be paid by way of compensation for damage sustained by reason of severance or injury affecting land that is ecclesiastical property (being severance or injury arising from the acquisition of land in pursuance of that provision) shall be so paid.
(4)Any sum which, in pursuance of a provision included in an order in compliance with the last foregoing subsection, is paid to the [F1Diocesan Board of Finance for the diocese in which the land is situated] with reference to any land shall, if the land is not consecrated, be applied by [F4it] for the purposes for which the proceeds of a sale by agreement of the fee simple of the land would be applicable under any enactment or Measure authorising such a sale or disposing of the proceeds of such a sale, and if the land is consecrated, be applied by [F4it] [F4as if the land had been sold under the Pastoral Measure 1983].
(5)In this section the expression “ecclesiastical property” means land belonging to an ecclesiastical benefice of the Church of England, or being or forming part of a church subject to the jurisdiction of the bishop of any diocese of the Church of England or the site of a church so subject, or being or forming part of a burial ground so subject.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 49 substituted (1.10.2006) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2006 (No. 1), s. 16(2), Sch. 5 para. 10(a); Instrument 2006 No. 2 made by the Archbishops
F2Words in s. 49(2) substituted (1.10.2006) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2006 (No. 1), s. 16(2), Sch. 5 para. 10(b); Instrument 2006 No. 2 made by the Archbishops
F3Words repealed by Transport Act 1981 (c. 56), Sch. 12 Pt. II
F4Words in s. 49(4) substituted (1.10.2006) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2006 (No. 1), s. 16(2), Sch. 5 para. 10(c); Instrument 2006 No. 2 made by the Archbishops