{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tithe-act-1878-repealed-19111998/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tithe-act-1878-repealed-19111998/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/41-42/42",
  "legislation_title": "Tithe Act 1878 (repealed 19.11.1998)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tithe-act-1878-repealed-19111998",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Redemption of tithe on land required for public purposes.",
  "text": "In all cases where land charged with rentcharge in lieu of tithes is taken for any of the following purposes; that is to say,\nThe building of any church, chapel, or other place of public worship;\nThe making of any cemetery or other place of burial;\nThe erection of any school under the Elementary Education Act;\nThe erection of any town hall, court of assize, gaol, lunatic asylum, hospital, or any other building used for public purposes, or in the carrying out of any improvements under the Artizans Dwellings Act, 1875;\nThe formation of any sewage farm under the provisions of the Sanitary Acts, or the construction of any sewers, or sewage works, or any gas or water works;\nOr the enlarging and improving of the premises or buildings occupied or used for any of the above-mentioned purposes;\nthe person or persons proposing to carry out the above-mentioned works, buildings, or improvements shall, as soon as the said person or persons are in possession of the land, and before the land is applied to any of the purposes aforesaid, apply to the Tithe Commissioners to order the redemption of the rentcharge for a sum of money equal to twenty-five times the amount thereof; and the redemption money, with the expenses incident to the redemption, shall be paid to the said Commissioners within a time to be fixed by such order, or within any enlarged time the Commissioners may appoint, and the Commissioners shall apply such redemption money in the manner provided by the said Acts.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1875 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 1 amended by Tithe Act 1925 (c. 87), s. 19(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/41-42/42/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:45:23.751135+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}