http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/45-46/21/enactedPlaces of Worship Sites Amendment Act 1882Places of worshipCharitiesKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2021-04-15 Places of Worship Sites Amendment Act 1882 1882 Chapter 21 An Act to amend the Places of Worship Sites Act, 1873. [12th July 1882]

WHEREAS by the Places of Worship Sites Act, 1873, facilities are afforded for the conveyance of pieces of land not exceeding in quantity one acre for sites for places of religious worship and for burial places, but doubts have been entertained whether conveyances can be made under that Act by corporations and public bodies, and it is expedient to remove such doubts:

And whereas cases have arisen in which tenants for life are unable to make conveyances under the said Act by reason that the person next entitled to the manor or lands for a beneficial interest in fee simple or fee tail is unborn or unascertained; and it is expedient to grant increased facilities for making such conveyances:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : Conveyance of lands by corporations and other public bodies. 1 The Places of Worship Sites Act, 1873, shall be construed as extending to authorise any corporation, ecclesiastical or lay, whether sole or aggregate, and any officers, justices of the peace, trustees, or commissioners holding land for public, ecclesiastical, parochial, charitable, or other purposes or objects, to grant, convey, or enfranchise for the purposes of the Act such quantity of land as therein mentioned: Provided as follows : a An ecclesiastical corporation sole, being below the dignity of a Bishop, shall not make any such grant without the consent in writing of the Bishop of the diocese to whose jurisdiction he is subject: b A municipal corporation shall not make any such grant without the consent in writing of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury: c Parochial property shall not be so granted without the consent of a majority of the ratepayers and owners of property in the parish to which the property belongs, assembled at a meeting to be convened according to the mode pointed out in the Act of the session held in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter 69, intituled " An " Act to facilitate the conveyance of workhouses and other " property of parishes, and of incorporations or unions of " parishes in England and Wales," and of the Local Government Board and of the guardians of the poor of the parish or of the union comprising the parish, testified by their being parties to the conveyance: d Property held on trust for charitable purposes shall not be so granted without the consent of the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales. Power for limited owner in case of unborn or unascertained remainderman to convey, &c. 2 The said Act shall be construed as extending to authorise any person seised or entitled only for life or lives of or to any manor or lands of freehold tenure to make such grant, conveyance, or enfranchisement as is mentioned in the said Act in cases where the person next entitled to the same for a beneficial interest in remainder in fee simple or fee tail is unborn or unascertained: Provided that no such grant, conveyance, or enfranchisement made by any such person seised only for a life or lives shall be valid unless the person seised or entitled for a beneficial interest for life or lives, or for an estate in fee simple or fee tail (as the case may be) in remainder immediately expectant on the estate of such unborn or unascertained person of or to such manor or lands (if any, and if legally competent) shall be a party to and shall join in the same; and if there be no such person, or if such person be not legally competent, unless the trustees or trustee (if any) of such manor or lands during the suspense or contingency of the then immediate or expectant estate in fee simple or fee tail in such manor or lands shall in like manner concur. Short title. 3 This Act may be cited as the Places of Worship Sites Amendment Act, 1882. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 50. 5 & 6 W. 4. c. 69.