Reverter of Sites Act 1987 (Version in vigour from 2012-03-14 to )
Currency | No known outstanding effects |
Coming into Force | 14 March 2012 |
(1) Where any relevant enactment provides for land to revert to the ownership of any person at any time, being a time when the land ceases, or has ceased for a specified period, to be used for particular purposes, that enactment shall have effect, and (subject to subsection (4) below) shall be deemed always to have had effect, as if it provided (instead of for the reverter) for the land to be vested after that time, on the trust arising under this section, in the persons in whom it was vested immediately before that time.(2) Subject to the following provisions of this Act, the trust arising under this section in relation to any land is a trust F2for the persons who (but for this Act) would from time to time be entitled to the ownership of the land by virtue of its reverter with a power, without consulting them, to sell the land and to stand possessed of the net proceeds of sale (after payment of costs and expenses) and of the net rents and profits until sale (after payment of rates, taxes, costs of insurance, repairs and other outgoings) F3in trust for those persons; but they shall not be entitled by reason of their interest to occupy the land.a trust in relation to any land has arisen or is treated as having arisen under this section at such a time as is mentioned in subsection (1) above; andimmediately before that time the land was vested in any persons in their capacity as the minister and churchwardens of any parish,in relation to any property in respect of which that person’s claim was statute-barred before the commencement of this Act, or in relation to any property derived from any such property; orin relation to any rents or profits received, or breach of trust committed, before the commencement of this Act;for the purposes for which they could have acted in relation to that property if this Act had not been passed; orfor the purpose of securing the establishment of a scheme under section 2 below or the making of an order under F6section 554 of the Education Act 1996 (special powers as to trusts for religious education) .(6) In this section—
- “churchwardens” includes chapel wardens;
- “minister” includes a rector, vicar or perpetual curate; and
- “parish” includes a parish of the Church in Wales;
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