s 47 Interpretation.
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— “ The Church ” means the Church of Scotland; “ The General Assembly ” means the General Assembly of the Church; “ The General Trustees ” means the Church of Scotland General Trustees incorporated by the Church of Scotland (General Trustees) Order 1921; “ The Commissioners ” means the Scottish Ecclesiastical Commissioners to be appointed under this Act; “ Minister ” means a minister of the Church; “ Stipend ” means the stipend of a minister , including any allowance for communion elements payable by heritors out of teinds ; “ Glebe ” means the lands appropriated to a minister as his glebe, and shall be deemed to include grass glebe or minister’s grass, servitudes, right of pasturage, or other heritable rights belonging to the minister and forming part of the benefice, or any money payments in use to be made to the minister in respect of the said rights or any of them, and any land settled in perpetuity on the minister for the time being; “ Court of Teinds ” has the same meaning as in the United Parishes (Scotland) Act 1876; “ Manse ” and “ Lord Ordinary ” have the same meanings as in the Ecclesiastical Buildings and Glebes (Scotland) Act 1868. (2) For the purposes of this Act the surrendered teinds of any lands payable as stipend shall be deemed to be stipend exigible from the teinds of those lands. (3) The reference to “teinds” in section fifty-nine of the Improvement of Land Act 1864, shall be construed so as to include standard charges.