5(1)Any person who is designated by or selected under a pastoral scheme or order as the incumbent of a benefice, shall not be required to be presented to that benefice nor shall the bishop be required to nominate that person as the person to whom he collates the benefice.E
(2)Where a pastoral scheme creates a new benefice or establishes a team ministry for the area of a benefice, then—
(a)if the first incumbent of that new benefice or the first rector of that ministry is designated or selected as aforesaid, he shall, unless the bishop otherwise directs, be deemed to have been admitted to that new benefice or to the benefice for the area of which the team ministry is established, as the case may be, and no fees in respect thereof shall be payable;
(b)in any other case section 75(1) shall apply.
(3)Where a pastoral scheme or order provides for the holding in plurality of two or more benefices, then—
(a)if the first incumbent who is to hold all the benefices concerned was immediately before the scheme or order comes into operation the incumbent of any of those benefices, he shall, unless the bishop otherwise directs, be deemed to have been admitted to the other benefice or benefices, and no fees in respect thereof shall be payable;
(b)in any other case section 75(2) shall apply.
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(5)It shall not be necessary, by reason only of the substitution of another church for a parish church by pastoral scheme or order, for the incumbent of the benefice to be inducted in the new parish church or comply with any other process or form of law.
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 3 para. 5(4) repealed by Patronage (Benefices) Measure 1986 (No. 3, SIF 21:4), s. 41(2), Sch. 5