Amendment of provisions as to altered apportionments.
(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section fourteen of the Tithe Act, 1842, on the alteration of an apportionment a tithe rentcharge of less than five shillings may be charged on any land if the owner of the rentcharge the subject of the apportionment consents, or if the owner of the land on which the rentcharge of less than five shillings is apportioned has applied to the Minister for an order directing that it shall be redeemed on the alteration of the apportionment, and an order has been made accordingly.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of section eleven of the Tithe Act, 1860, the consent of the owner or owners of the lands charged with tithe rentcharge shall not be required for the reapportionment and redistribution of rentcharges over and amongst the lands charged therewith provided that the rentcharges are payable to the same person.
(3) The powers of apportionment of rentcharges in lieu of corn rents conferred by section seventeen of the Tithe Act, 1860, shall extend to the apportionment of all corn rents to which the said Act applies.
Amendment of ss. 1 and 5 of Tithe Act, 1878.
(1) Where application for redemption of a tithe rentcharge is not made by the persons directed to make such application under section one of the Tithe Act, 1878, the Minister may order such redemption on the application of the owner of the tithe rentcharge.
(2) Section five of the Tithe Act, 1878, which authorizes redemption of tithe rentcharge on lands which have been divided into numerous plots, shall extend also to any case where the Minister is satisfied that land is about to be so divided.
Amendment of provisions of 8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 54, as to redemption of tithe rentcharge.
(1) Subsection (2) of section four of the Tithe Act, 1918, shall have effect as if sixty years were substituted for fifty years as the maximum period of the duration of an annuity in discharge of the consideration money for the redemption of tithe rentcharge, and as if for the words “after payment of the first instalment of the annuity” there were substituted the words “as from the date on which the annuity commences.”
(2) Where any such annuity is vested in Queen Anne’s Bounty then, for the purposes of subsection (3) of section one hundred and ninety-one of the Law of Property Act, 1925, Queen Anne’s Bounty shall be deemed to be empowered to give an absolute discharge for the capital value of the annuity.
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Duty of overseers, &c., to furnish information.
For the purpose of enabling the Minister to ascertain the deduction in respect of rates to be made in the ascertainment of compensation for redemption of tithe rentcharge, the overseers or other person or body by whom a rate has been made shall, on being requested so to do, supply to the Minister any information which is in his or their possession as to the amount paid or payable on account of the rate in respect of any tithe rentcharge arising out of land in the area to which the rate applies.
Extension of powers of improvement companies.
Where any company is authorised by an Act of Parliament to advance money for the redemption of tithe rentcharges or corn rents upon the security of a charge limited to a period of less than sixty years, the provisions of the Act shall have effect in relation to a charge for such a purpose as if a period of sixty years were thereby authorized.
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