Section 13 Ecclesiastical corporations sole to procure a certificate as to the extent of the land conveyed.

When any ecclesiastical corporation sole below the dignity of a bishop shall grant any land belonging to him in right of his corporation for the purposes of this Act, he shall procure a certificate, under the hands of three beneficed clergymen of the diocese within which the land to be conveyed shall be situate, as to the extent of the land so conveyed, to be endorsed on the said deed; which certificate shall be in the form following; (that is to say,)

”We, A.B. clerk, rectorForm of certificate.of the parish of C.D. clerk, rector of the parish of and E.F. clerk, vicar of the parish of , being three beneficed clergymen of the diocese of do hereby certify, that clerk, rector of the parish of within the said diocese of being about to convey a portion of land situate in the said parish of for the purposes of a school, under the powers of the Act passed in year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled “An Act for affording further facilities for the conveyance and endowment of sites for schools,” we have at his request inspected and examined the portion of land, and have ascertained that the same is situate at [here describe the situation], and that the extent thereof does not exceed acre . As witness our hands, this day of at in the county of and diocese of .

Witness of .’

And until such certificate shall have been signed no such conveyance shall have any force or validity.