Pastoral Measure 1983 (repealed)

Section 1.

SCHEDULE 1 E Constitution and procedure of the pastoral committee of a diocese

1 E The Bishop shall be a member of the pastoral committee of his diocese if he so desires, and shall be the chairman thereof if he so desires.

2 E If the bishop does not desire to be the chairman of the Committee he shall appoint a chairman who at the time of his appointment need not be a member of the committee but must be a member of the diocesan synod.

3 E Every suffragan bishop in the diocese [F1 (not being a suffragan bishop appointed to act as a provincial episcopal visitor for the purposes of the Episcopal Ministry Act of Synod 1993)] and the archdeacon of every archdeaconry in the diocese shall be ex officio members of the committee.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 1 para. 3 inserted (1.9.1995) by 1995 No. 2, s. 11(e); Instrument dated 26.7.1995 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York.

4 E The diocesan board of finance, the diocesan parsonages board (if appointed under the M1 Repair of Benefice Buildings Measure 1972) or if not so appointed the committee of the diocesan board of finance relating to parsonage matters and the diocesan advisory committee for the care of churches shall each appoint a member of the committee, who shall be a member or officer of the body who so appoints him.

Marginal Citations

M1 1972 No. 2.

5 E The remaining members of the committee shall be appointed or elected in such manner as the diocesan synod may determine, but so as to secure that not less than one-half of all the members of the committee shall be elected and that the number of members who are of the clergy and the number thereof who are of the laity shall, as nearly as may be, be the same, and not more than one-third shall be ex officio members appointed under paragraph 3.

6 E Members (other than ex officio members) of the committee shall hold office for five years or such lesser period as the diocesan synod may determine, but shall be eligible for re-appointment on the termination of any period of office.

7 E Not less than one-third of the members of the committee shall form a quorum.

8 E The committee may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their membership.

9 E Every question submitted to a meeting of the committee shall be decided by a majority of those present and voting, and the chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote in the case of an equality of votes.

10 E The committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees and to appoint thereto persons who are not members of the committee, but a majority of the members of the sub-committee shall be members of the committee. The committee may delegate to such sub-committees any of their functions under Part I or Part IV except their duty under section 3(5) to afford opportunities to incumbents of benefices and vicars in team ministries to meet the committee itself and their functions under Schedule 4.

11 E Where in accordance with section 3(5) or (6) any person is to meet a sub-committee of the committee, not less than two members of that sub-committee shall be members of the committee.

12 E Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Schedule and to any directions given by the diocesan synod, the committee shall have power to regulate their own procedure.