Tithe Rentcharge Redemption Act 1885
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1885 c. 32 |
Tithe Rentcharge Redemption Act, 1885
(48 & 49 Vict.) 32.
An Act to amend and extend the Acts relating to the redemption of Tithe Rentcharge in England and Wales.
[22nd July 1885]
Whereas an Act was passed in the session of Parliament held in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled ‘An Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales,’ and the said Act has been amended and the provisions thereof have been extended by Acts passed in the sessions of Parliament held respectively in the first year, the first and second years, the second and third years, the third year, the fifth and sixth years, the ninth and tenth years, the tenth and eleventh years, the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years, the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years, and the forty-first and forty-second years of the reign of Her present Majesty:
And whereas it is expedient that the said Acts should be amended, and that the provisions thereof should be further extended in manner herein-after mentioned:
Be it therefore 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 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as theTithe Rentcharge Redemption Act, 1885.
2 Powers of recited Acts extended to tithe rent-charges under local Acts.
2. The powers and provisions of the said recited Acts respecting the redemption of rentcharge (except as otherwise by this Act is provided) shall extend and be applicable to all corn rents, rent-charges, and money payments, payable out of or charged on any lands by virtue of any Act of Parliament in lieu of tithes.
3 Evidence to accompany application for redemption.
3. Every application to the Commissioners for the redemption of any such corn rent, rentcharge, or money payment shall be accompanied with a certified copy or extract from the Act, and from any award made in pursuance thereof, showing the amount of the corn rent, rentcharge, or money payment proposed to be redeemed, and with such evidence or proof of the payment of such corn rent, rentcharge, or money payment together with such particulars of the land liable thereto as the Commissioners shall think fit.
Provided always, that if the said...
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