The Tithe Apportionments (Transfer of Custody) Order 1966

• Citation: S.I. 1966/1600
• Sections: 3

Section 1

(1) This Order may be cited as the Tithe Apportionments (Transfer of Custody) Order 1966.

(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply in relation to the interpretation of this. Order as it applies in relation to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

(3) In this Order—

(a) “ The Commissioners ” means the Commissioners of Inland Revenue ;

(b) “ Instrument of apportionment ” means an instrument of apportionment made and confirmed, or an instrument of altered apportionment made, under the Tithe Acts 1836 to 1925 and a map annexed to any such instrument or detached therefrom under section 26 of the Tithe Act 1860 but does not include a certificate of capital value sealed under the Extraordinary Tithe Acts 1886 and 1897 or a map annexed to such a certificate or detached from it under the said section 26 .

(4) This Order shall come into operation on 1st January 1967.

Section 2

As soon as may be after the coming into operation of this Order the Commissioners shall transfer to the Public Record Office all instruments of apportionment in their custody.

Section 3

As and from the time of transfer of each instrument of apportionment all the functions of the Commissioners in relation to that instrument (including in particular the functions under subsection (5) of section 10 of the Tithe Act 1951 concerning custody and under subsection (2) of section 7 of that Act concerning inspection and provision of copies or extracts) shall be transferred to the Public Record Office and the said subsection (2) and also subsection (3) of the said section 7 (which relates to the admissibility in evidence of certified copies or extracts) shall apply in relation to that instrument as though for references to the Commission therein there were substituted references to the Public Record Office and for the reference in subsection (2) to such reasonable fee as might be prescribed there were substituted a reference to such fee as shall have been prescribed by the Lord Chancellor pursuant to subsection (5) of section 2 of the Public Records Act 1958