Parsonages (Amendment) Measure, 1947
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | measure 1947 No. 3 |
| Year | 1947 |
Parsonages (Amendment) Measure, 1947
(10 & 11 Geo. 6.)
A MEASURE passed by the National Assembly of the Church of England.
To amend the Parsonages Measure, 1938, and for purposes connected therewith.
[31st July 1947]
1 Power for Queen Anne's Bounty to purchase parsonage houses.
Queen Anne's Bounty may purchase any property proposed to be sold under the provisions of the Parsonages Measure, 1938(in this Measure referred to as ‘the principal Measure’) if the Bishop and Diocesan Dilapidations Board are satisfied that the price offered is reasonably satisfactory, and no objection on that ground is made within the prescribed period by the patron or the parochial church council.
2 Power of postponing certain loan payments.
Queen Anne's Bounty shall have power to postpone' in whole or in part, the repayment of moneys advanced by them under the Clergy Residences Repair Act, 1776, as amended by any subsequent Acts or Measures, the payment of interest thereon, or both such repayment and payment, for such periods and on such conditions as they may from time to time determine; and this power may be exercised at the time when the loan is made or at any time or times during the currency thereof.
3 Extension of section five of the Parsonages Measure, 1938.
(1) Section five of the principal Measure shall have effect as if after paragraph (iv) of subsection (1) thereof there were inserted the following paragraphs:—
iv ( a ) In repaying to an incumbent or incumbents such amounts as he or they may have paid to Queen Anne's Bounty in reduction of a loan made by them for or towards the erection or purchase of a residence house;
iv ( b ) In repaying to Queen Anne's Bounty the whole or any part of any grant made by them for or towards the erection or purchase of a residence house.
(2) Subsection (2) of the said section shall have effect as if the words ‘or interest’ were inserted immediately after the words ‘principal money’ in both places where those words occur.
4 Short title and construction.
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