The Listed Buildings (Exempt Religious Buildings) (Wales) Regulations 2024

• Citation: S.I. 2024/927 (W.)
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Title, coming into force and code

(1) The title of these Regulations is the Listed Buildings (Exempt Religious Buildings) (Wales) Regulations 2024.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 4 November 2024.

(3) These Regulations form part of a code of law relating to the historic environment of Wales .

Section 2 Exempt religious buildings

(1) The following buildings are exempt religious buildings for the purposes of section 156 of the Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023—

(a) church buildings of the Church in Wales vested in the Representative Body of the Church in Wales or any other representative body incorporated under section 13(2) of the Welsh Church Act 1914 ;

(b) church buildings held in trust by the diocesan trustees of a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church;

(c) church buildings owned by or held in trust for or for the purposes of the Methodist Church or any connexional or local organisation of the Methodist Church;

(d) church buildings owned by or held in trust for a church in membership with the Baptist Union of Great Britain or the Baptist Union of Wales by either—

(i) the Baptist Union Corporation Limited (whether solely or jointly with another person), or

(ii) the Welsh Baptist Union Corporation Limited (whether solely or jointly with another person);

(e) church buildings within the faculty jurisdiction of the Church of England.

(2) The buildings in paragraph (1)(a) to (d) are exempt religious buildings only in relation to works carried out—

(a) by or on behalf of a church body, or a constituent part of a church body, referred to in that paragraph, or

(b) where the church building is on any premises forming part of a university, college, school, hospital or public or charitable institution, by or on behalf of the governing body or the trustees of that institution.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a) a building is a church building if it is used primarily as a place of worship;

(b) “exempt religious building” is to be interpreted in accordance with section 156 of the Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023;

(c) “ Methodist Church ” means the United Church or denomination formed under the Methodist Church Union Act 1929 .

Section 3 Revocation

The Ecclesiastical Exemption (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Wales) Order 2018 is revoked.