http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/45-46/21/section/1Places Of Worship Sites Amendment Act 1882An Act to amend the Places of Worship Sites Act, 1873.1977-12-01texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2014-12-16Expert Participation2012-03-14 1The 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:aAn 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:bA municipal corporation shall not make any such grant without the consent in writing of the Secretary of State:cParochial property shall not be so granted without the consent of . . . the Secretary of State . . . :dProperty held on trust for charitable purposes shall not be so granted except with the consent of the Charity Commission or in accordance with such provisions of sections 117(2) and 119 to 121 of the Charities Act 2011 as are applicable.1873 c. 50. Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1953/734 (1958 I, p. 1231) and 1970/1681, art. 2Words repealed by Local Government Act 1929 (c. 17), Sch. 12 Pt. VIIWords substituted by virtue of S.I. 1965/319, art 2(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I and 1970/1681, art. 2Words in s. 1(d) substituted (14.3.2012) by Charities Act 2011 (c. 25), s. 355, Sch. 7 para. 6 (with s. 20(2), Sch. 8)