{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tithe-act-1878-repealed-19111998/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tithe-act-1878-repealed-19111998/section-5.json",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  "legislation_title": "Tithe Act 1878 (repealed 19.11.1998)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tithe-act-1878-repealed-19111998",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/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Redemption of tithe on divided lands.",
  "text": "Whenever lands charged with rentcharge under any instrument of apportionment or altered apportionment shall be divided for building or other purposes into numerous plots, and it shall appear to the Commissioners that no further apportionment of the said rentcharge can conveniently be made, the Commissioners may, if they shall see fit, upon the application of the owner or of the person for the time being entitled to the receipt of the said rentcharge, and without limitation as to the amount thereof, by an order under their hands and seal, direct that such rentcharge shall be redeemed by the payment by the owners of the lands chargeable therewith, within such time as the Commissioners shall by such order direct and appoint, of a sum of money not less than twenty-five times the amount of such rentcharge.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 5 amended by Tithe Act 1925 (c. 87), s. 19(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/41-42/42/section/5",
    "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."
}