Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Wales v Representative Body of the Church in Wales and Tithe Redemption Commission The plaintiffs were the Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Wales as constituted by the Welsh Church Act 1914, s 10, and, as such, were a lay corporation. The first defendants, the Representative Body of the Church in Wales, were a body incorporated by Royal Charter, pursuant to the Welsh Church Act 1914, s 13.