§ Procedure as to Receipt of Stock by Diocesan Authority, Etc.
§ 1. As soon as may be after particulars pf a tithe rentcharge have been transmitted to the Commission under section five of this Act or they have ascertained particulars of a tithe rentcharge, if it appears to them that it was a rentcharge in respect of which stock is to be issued under this Act and that the Diocesan Authority are entitled to receive a part of that stock, they shall give notice in writing to Queen Anne's Bounty of the name and address of the person by whom the particulars were submitted, or of the person appearing to them' to be entitled for the time being to the interest on the stock to be issued in respect of the rentcharge, as the case may be.
§ 2. Within two months from the service of the Commission's notice the Diocesan Authority shall serve on the person therein named notice in writing specifying the amount claimed by them to represent the sum required for repairs and in default of their so doing within that period, or within such extended period as the Commission may in special circumstances allow on application being made to them in that behalf, the right of the Diocesan Authority to receive a part of the stock to be issued in respect of the rentcharge shall be forfeited.
§ 3. In the case of a chancel or building in England, other than Monmouthshire, the amount to be specified as aforesaid shall be the amount for which the liability to repair could have been compounded under section fifty-two of the Measure if the rentcharge had not been extinguished, and the Diocesan Authority shall cause that amount to be determined in accordance, so far as circum stances permit, with sub-sections (2) and (3) of that section.
§ 4. Where a notice has been served as aforesaid by the Diocesan Authority, any person interested in the stock to be issued in respect of the rentcharge may, by notice in writing served on the Authority within twenty-eight days from the service of the Authority's notice, require the question whether the sum specified therein is more than such as is reasonably sufficient to be referred to the arbitration of a person to be determined by agreement between the parties or, in case of difference, by the Commission, and the sum required for repairs shall be taken to be either the sum specified in the Authority's notice or, where arbitration has been duly required, such sum as may be fixed in the arbitration proceedings.
§ 5. Stock issued to the Diocesan Authority by virtue of the provisions of section thirty- one of this Act shall be held and disposed of for the purposes and in the manner for and in which an investment of a sum paid in compounding a liability for repairs is to be held and disposed of under the Measure.