{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tithe-act-1925-repealed-19111998/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tithe-act-1925-repealed-19111998/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/15-16/87",
  "legislation_title": "Tithe Act 1925 (repealed 19.11.1998)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tithe-act-1925-repealed-19111998",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Definitions.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires,—\nThe expression “Minister” means the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries:\nThe expression “tithe rentcharge” means tithe rentcharge issuing out of lands and payable in pursuance of the Tithe Acts, and includes a rentcharge into which before the appointed day, a corn rent has been converted under those Acts and which is subject to the like incidents as such tithe rentcharge as aforesaid; but does not include a rentcharge payable under the Extraordinary Tithe Redemption Act, 1886, nor a rentcharge payable under the Tithe Act, 1860, in respect of the tithes on any gated, or stinted pasture, nor a sum or rate payable for each head of cattle or stock turned on land subject to common rights or held or enjoyed in common:\nThe expression “Tithe Acts” does not include the Extraordinary Tithe Redemption Act, 1886, but otherwise means the Tithe Acts, 1836 to 1918:\nThe expression “benefice” has the same meaning as in the Tithe Rentcharge (Rates) Act, 1899:\nThe expression “ecclesiastical corporation” has the same meaning as in the Episcopal and Capitular Estates Act, 1851:\nThe expression “authorized securities” means securities in which Queen Anne’s Bounty are for the time being authorized to invest their corporate funds:\nThe expression “costs of collection” includes all costs and expenses incurred by a committee constituted for a collection area in the exercise of any of the powers (whether of collection or management), and of the performance of any of the duties delegated to the committee:\nThe expression “total income” in relation to a benefice means the total income arising from the benefice estimated in accordance with the provisions of the Income Tax Acts for the preceding income tax year, but so that where the incumbent of a benefice holds more than one benefice (whether united for ecclesiastical purposes or not so united) it shall mean the sum of the total incomes, estimated as aforesaid, arising from the several benefices.\n2)(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 14(1)(a), 24(2)(3), 25 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2 c. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1886 c. 54."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1899 c. 17."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1851 c. 104."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Style and title of Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries now changed to Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by S.I. 1955/554 (1955 I, p. 1200)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/15-16/87/section/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:42:18.442100+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}