Redundant Churches and other Religious Buildings Act 1969
| Year | 1969 |
Redundant Churches andother Religious BuildingsAct 1969
1969 CHAPTER 22
An Act to authorise the making of grants to the Redundant Churches Fund; to exclude section 40 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1968 in relation to the demolition, in certain cases, of redundant places of public worship; to provide for, and make provision in connection with, the transfer to the Minister of Housing and Local Government or the Secretary of State of certain such places; and to make other provision relating to the acquisition and maintenance by that Minister and the Secretary of State of redundant churches and other religious buildings.
[16th May 1969]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Grants to Redundant Churches Fund.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, in the period beginning with the passing of this Act and expiring with the day preceding the fifth anniversary of the coming into operation of the Pastoral Measure 1968 (hereafter in this section referred to as ‘the initial period’) and in such later periods as may be specified by the Minister of Housing and Local Government by order made with the approval of the Treasury, that Minister may, with the like approval, out of moneys provided by Parliament, make, in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the Redundant Churches Fund established by that Measure, grants to that Fund of such amounts, payable at such times and subject to such conditions, if any, as he may from time to time determine.
(2) The aggregate amount of the grants that may be paid under the foregoing subsection in the initial period shall not exceed 200,000 and the aggregate amount of the grants that may be so paid in a period specified in an order made under that subsection shall not exceed such sum as may, in relation to that period, be specified in the order.
(3) The power to make an order under subsection (1) above shall include power to vary or revoke that order by a subsequent order thereunder.
(4) The power to make an order under subsection (1) above shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, but a statutory instrument containing such an order shall not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been approved by a resolution of the Commons House of Parliament.
2 Section 40 of Town and Country Planning Act 1968 not to prevent demolition of buildings in pursuance of schemes under Pastoral Measure 1968.
2. Section 40 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1968(which restricts the execution of works for the demolition, alteration or extension of a building for the time being included in a list compiled or approved under section 32 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1962) shall not apply to the execution of works for the demolition, in pursuance of a pastoral or redundancy scheme (within the meaning of the Pastoral Measure 1968), of a redundant building (within the meaning of that Measure) or a part of such a building.
3 Substitution, in section 66 of Pastoral Measure 1968, of Minister of Housing and Local Government for Minister of Public Building and Works.
3. Section 66 of the Pastoral Measure 1968 (which authorises a Diocesan Board of Finance and the Redundant Churches Fund to make agreements with the Minister of Public Building and Works for the acquisition and preservation by him of redundant buildings vested in that Board or that Fund) shall have effect with the substitution, for any reference to the Minister of Public Building and Works, of a reference to the Minister of Housing and Local Government.
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