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Enactments with respect to ecclesiastical residences.
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27. Where there is any ecclesiastical residence vested in the Commissioners which at the time of the passing of this Act or within six months prior thereto is or has been occupied as a residence by any ecclesiastical person performing or aiding in the performance of the services in any church vested in the representative body of said Church in pursuance of this Act or in any building temporarily used in place of a church, or where such residence being a see house is or has been occupied by the archbishop or bishop of the see to which such residence belongs at the time of the passing of this Act, or within six months prior thereto, the Commissioners shall, on the application of the representative body of the said Church, by order vest in that body such ecclesiastical residence, with the garden and curtilage thereto, subject to such life estate or interest, if any, as may be then subsisting therein, upon payment to the Commissioners of such sum as is herein-after mentioned, that is to say, where there is no building charge affecting the same, upon payment to the Commissioners of a sum equal to ten times the amount of the annual value of the site of such ecclesiastical residence estimated as land, and of the said garden and curtilage, such value to be determined in case of disagreement by arbitration; and where there is a building charge affecting the same, on payment to the Commissioners of such one of the two sums herein-after mentioned as may be the smallest, that is to say, either the amount of such building charge or a sum equal to the value of such ecclesiastical residence, with the garden and curtilage thereto, taken at ten years purchase of the annual value as estimated by the general tenement valuation, such valuation and payment to be made, if there be no life estate or interest subsisting in such residence, at the time of the making of the said vesting order, but if there be a life estate or interest subsisting therein, then such valuation, and also the payment to the Commissioners or persons entitled thereto in place of the Commissioners, to be made immediately after the determination of such life estate or interest.
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Where the payment of the amount of any building charge or sum as aforesaid is deferred in pursuance of this section, the amount thereof shall be deemed to be a lien on the said ecclesiastical residence, and the garden and curtilage thereto, in the nature of a lien for unpaid purchase money, but it shall not bear interest until the same becomes payable in pursuance of this section.
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