Article 6 Peculiars and other special cases

(1)

Ecclesiastical exemption is retained for buildings to which this article applies which do not fall withn article 4.

(2)

This article applies to—

(a)

buildings within a peculiar of the Church of England;

(b)

any building used for worship according to the rites, doctrinal standards, principles or usages of the Church of England, the Church in Wales, the Roman Catholic Church, the Methodist Church, the Baptist denomination or the United Reformed Church on any premises forming part of—

(i)

La university, college, school, hospital or Inn of Court, or

(ii)

a public or charitable institution, other than one referred to in sub- sub-paragraph (i) above, if the premises in question do not consist solely of that building and its curtilage;

(c)

buildings owned by or held in trust for a religious community of the Church of England;

(d)

buildings owned by or held in trust for a Roman Catholic Religious Institute or Society of Apostolic Life;

(e)

buildings subject to a sharing agreement pursuant to the Sharing of Church Buildings Act 1969^f1made on behalf of one or more of the Churches referred to in sub-paragraph (b) above or any Church in membership with the Baptist Union of Great Britain or the Baptist Union of Wales; and

(f)

buildings used for worship according to the rites, doctrinal standards, principles or usages of the Church of Scotland, the Free Church of Scotland or the Free Presbyterian Church.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1969 c. 38.