Section 2 Pews or sittings may be surrendered to Church Commissioners.F1

Whenever by virtue of any public or private Act of Parliament now or hereafter in force, or by virtue of any deed or instrument, the pews or sittings, or some or one of the pews or sittings, in any church or chapel, consecrated or unconsecrated, are or is or shall be subject to any trust as to the grant, demise, sale, or disposal of such pews or sittings, pew or sitting, or are, is, or shall be the private property for any estate whatsoever of any person or persons, then and in every such case it shall be lawful for the trustees of such church or chapel, or other the persons exercising powers of grant, demise, sale, or disposal as aforesaid, or for all or any persons possessing on their own behalf or on the behalf of others any rights, qualified or unqualified, of ownership, by reason of any such grant, demise, sale, or disposal as aforesaid, or for any person or persons to whom any pews or sittings, pew or sitting, in such church or chapel shall belong, for any estate whatsoever, under or by virtue of such Act of Parliament, deed, or instrument as aforesaid, with or without consideration, to surrender and for ever yield up, either altogether or separately, and according to the nature and extent of their several rights and interests, to the bishop of the diocese wherein such church or chapel is situate, or to the [Church Commissioners], who are hereby respectively authorized to accept every such surrender, all rights of ownership, grant, demise, sale, disposal, or other right whatsoever which they the said trustees, persons, or person, may have in, over, or in respect of such pews or sittings, pew or sitting.