Section 1 Existing liabilities on title or under contractI1I2

Where, immediately before the commencement of this section, a liability of the Church Commissioners to repair the chancel of a church had effect as an interest in or over land or as a contractual obligation, the liability—

A liability imposed on the Church Commissioners under this section is of the same extent as it was immediately before the commencement of this section.

Any instrument or agreement, in so far as it concerns a liability of the Church Commissioners to repair the chancel of a church, ceases to have effect on the commencement of this section.

Any Land Registry entry in respect of a liability of the Church Commissioners to repair the chancel of a church ceases to have effect on the commencement of this section.

The references to the Church Commissioners include a reference to a subsidiary of the Commissioners.