Conveniences.—Permits conveyance of site to any Body Political or Corporate.

—Contains no clause avoiding the conveyance if Service is discontinued for a time.

Inconveniences.—Requires the concurrence of Ordinary.

—Will be avoided (unless made for valuable consideration) if grantor dies within three months.

—Must be strictly for a Church or Chapel.

—Must be enrolled within six months.

—No provision for grant by a person under disability, e.g., tenant for life.

Place of Worship Sites’ Act.
36 & 37 Vict., cap. 50.

Conveniences.—Enables tenant for life to convey.

—Does not require consent of Ordinary.

—Deed will not be avoided by death of grantor within twelve months after execution of it.

Inconveniences.—Contains no power of conveyance to a Body Corporate except permission given to make Ecclesiastical Commissioners trustees of the site.

—Contains clauses involving the loss of the property, (a) if the land be used for any other purpose than that of a site for a place of worship; (b) if Service be discontinued in the place of worship for one year.

—May give difficulty as to consecration, if the Mission Room becomes a Church, owing to possible reversion to profane uses on the temporary discontinuance of Services.

School Sites’ Act.
4 & 5 Vict., cap 38; 7 & 8 Vict., cap. 37.

Conveniences.—Enable tenants for life to convey.

—Permit conveyance to Bodies Corporate making Minister and Churchwardens a corporation with perpetual succession for the purposes of these Acts.

Inconveniences.—Contain clauses involving the loss of the property if used for other purposes than those of education.

—Require enrolment of deeds.