Introductory Text
Part 1 General duty
1.General duty
Part 2 Mission and pastoral committees
2.Appointment of mission and pastoral committees
3.Functions of mission and pastoral committees
4.Conventional districts
Part 3 Procedure for making pastoral schemes and pastoral orders other than pastoral church buildings schemes
5.Introduction
Procedure for schemes and orders affecting a single diocese
6.Formulation and submission to bishop of draft proposals
7.Approval by bishop of draft proposals and preparation of draft scheme
8.Consideration of draft scheme or order by Commissioners
9.Notice and publication of draft schemes or orders
10.Amendment of draft schemes or orders
11.Making of schemes or orders
12.Appeals to the Privy Council
13.Transmission of copies of scheme or order
14.Validity and operation of schemes and orders
Modified procedure for schemes and orders affecting more than one diocese
15.Limited extension of diocesan proposals and schemes to other dioceses
16.Joint boundary committees
Supplementary
17.Power of bishop to formulate and submit proposals on certain matters
18.Withdrawal of scheme or order at request of bishop
19.Supplementary powers of Commissioners, mission and pastoral committees and joint boundary committees
Part 4 Procedure for making pastoral church buildings schemes
Procedure for schemes
20.Introduction
21.Formulation and submission to bishop of draft proposals
22.Approval by bishop of draft proposals
23.Amendment of proposals and preparation of draft scheme
24.Notice and publication of draft schemes
25.Amendment of draft schemes
26.Making of schemes
27.Transmission of copies of scheme
28.Application of provisions of Part 3 to pastoral church buildings schemes
29.Withdrawal of scheme at request of bishop
30.Supplementary powers of Commissioners and mission and pastoral committees
Part 5 Contents and effect of pastoral schemes and orders
Changes in benefices, parishes, extra-parochial places, archdeaconries and deaneries
31.Creation, alteration or dissolution of benefices, parishes and extra-parochial places
32.Holding of benefices in plurality
33.Archdeaconries and deaneries
Team and group ministries
34.Establishment of team ministries
35.Establishment of group ministries
36.Termination and alteration of team ministries and group ministries
Other provisions as to clergy and ministry
37.Status and duties of new benefices
38.Designation, selection and admission of certain incumbents
39.Operation of schemes dispossessing clergy or dissolving archdeaconries or deaneries
40.Compensation of clergy
Churches, churchyards and parsonage houses
41.Provisions as to parish churches
42.Closure of churches for regular public worship
43.Places of worship
44.Use of certain churchyards and burial grounds
45.Parsonage houses
Patronage
46.Provisions as to patronage
Endowments, stipends and other remuneration
47.Provisions as to endowments, income, etc.
Provisions as to sinecures
48.Sinecure rectories and chapelries
Pastoral schemes affecting more than one diocese
49.Limited extension of pastoral schemes to other dioceses
50.Schemes for the alteration of diocesan boundaries
Pastoral orders
51.Powers exercisable by pastoral order
Supplementary
52.Supplementary provisions of pastoral schemes and orders
53.Amendment and revocation of pastoral schemes and orders
54.Application of Schedule 3 containing supplementary provisions and powers
Part 6 Buildings closed for regular public worship
Appointment of statutory bodies for buildings closed for regular public worship
55.Functions of mission and pastoral committee concerning buildings closed for regular public worship
56.Commissioners to appoint Committee with duties in respect of buildings closed for regular public worship
57.Appointment of Churches Conservation Trust
Provisions for future use of buildings closed for regular public worship in pastoral church buildings schemes
58.Provision by pastoral church buildings scheme for appropriation or demolition of church to be closed for regular public worship to be replaced by new church
59.Other provision by pastoral church buildings scheme for church to be closed for regular public worship
60.No other cases to be dealt with by pastoral church buildings schemes
Pastoral (church buildings disposal) schemes
61.Use seeking period
62.Procedure for making pastoral (church buildings disposal) schemes
63.Contents of pastoral (church buildings disposal) schemes
64.Application of remainder of proceeds of sales and other disposals
65.Orders of Commissioners determining or varying payments to Churches Conservation Trust
66.Pastoral (church buildings disposal) schemes in respect of churches closed or demolished otherwise than under this Measure
67.Schemes under the Charities Act 1993 for redundant chapels belonging to charities
68.Churches not to be closed or disposed of otherwise than under this Measure
Amendment and revocation of pastoral (church buildings disposal) schemes and provisions in pastoral church buildings schemes relating to closure of buildings for regular public worship
69.Amendment of pastoral (church buildings disposal) schemes and provisions
70.Restoration of building closed for regular public worship to use as church building
Vesting of property and other supplementary provisions
71.Vesting of property
72.Rights of way and other easements
73.Acquisition of rights of way and other easements
74.Removal of legal effects of consecration of buildings and land
75.Power to impose and enforce covenants
76.Disposal of font, communion table and plate, and other contents
77.Trusts for the repair etc. of buildings closed for regular public worship and contents
78.Disposal of human remains
Preservation of churches closed for regular public worship by the Secretary of State
79.Transfer of churches closed for regular public worship
Part 7 Mission
Mission initiatives
80.Mission initiatives
81.Visitors
82.Supplementary provisions
83.Review of duration of mission initiatives and further provisions
84.Code of Practice
Part 8 Miscellaneous and General
Restrictions on presentation
85.Suspension of presentation for period not exceeding five years
86.During suspension period sequestration of profits, appointment of priest in charge and management of property
87.Restrictions on presentation pending the making of pastoral schemes and orders
88.Modification of Patronage (Benefices) Measure 1986 where presentation is suspended or restricted
89.Suspension of new rights of patronage
Miscellaneous provisions
90.Priest in charge to replace incumbent as trustee of certain charities during vacancy in benefice, etc.
91.Induction in one parish church
92.Grant of land for new churches etc. and vesting of certain churches
Administrative provisions
93.Diocesan pastoral accounts
94.Payment of expenses from diocesan pastoral accounts and application of moneys
95.The closed church buildings support account
96.Power of Commissioners to determine boundaries
97.Power of Commissioners to determine questions relating to patronage
98.Powers of Commissioners to seek information and give advice
99.Assistant curates
100.Application to benefices in the patronage of the Crown or Duke of Cornwall
101.Provision as to notices and other documents
102.Patrons who are minors
103.Provisions where there is no parochial church council, incumbent, etc.
General provisions
104.Pluralities not be authorised except under this Measure
105.Meaning of “benefice” and “parish”
106.General interpretation
107.Saving for planning legislation
108.Provisions as to guild churches
109.Churches etc. affected by private and local Acts
110.Transitional provisions
111.Repeals
112.Short title, extent and commencement
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1
Constitution and Procedure of the Mission and Pastoral Committee
1.There shall be a person to be known as “the...
2.The bishop, if he so wishes, may be a member...
3.Unless the bishop is the Chair, the Chair shall be...
4.All archdeacons in the diocese shall be members or, if...
5.Subject to paragraphs 1 to 4, the members of the...
6.The written constitution of the committee shall provide for a...
7.Subject to paragraph 6, the committee may act notwithstanding any...
8.The committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees and to...
9.The committee may delegate any of its functions to a...
10.The committee and any sub-committee shall have power to appoint...
11.The committee shall have power to make provision for the...
12.Subject to the preceding provisions of this Schedule and to...
SCHEDULE 2
Appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
1.Any person who intends to apply for leave to appeal...
2.Where five or more persons acting jointly duly made written...
3.If the Registrar of the Privy Council is satisfied that...
4.Within the period of 28 days beginning with the date...
5.The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council shall consider an...
6.After receiving notice that leave to appeal has been granted...
7.The Commissioners shall without delay after receiving the said copy...
8.Except with the leave of the Judicial Committee of the...
9.An appeal shall be set down as soon as the...
10.A map showing clearly the boundaries of any ecclesiastical area...
11.Where an appellant, having been granted leave to appeal under...
12.All bills of costs under any order of the Judicial...
13.The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council may give such...
SCHEDULE 3
Supplementary Provisions Relating to Matters Arising out of Pastoral Schemes and Orders
Team and group ministries
1.(1) A pastoral scheme establishing a team ministry shall provide...
2.(1) A pastoral scheme establishing a team ministry which provides...
3.Where a group ministry is established by a pastoral scheme...
4.(1) Where a pastoral scheme establishes a team ministry, the...
Admission and induction to benefices
5.(1) Any person who is designated by or selected under...
General provisions as to vesting of property
6.(1) Where a pastoral scheme creates a new benefice by...
Loans
7.(1) This paragraph applies to loans made under any Act...
Property transferred to diocesan board of finance
8.(1) Where any property is transferred under section 45 by...
Church and parochial trusts
9.(1) Where any benefice is dissolved by a pastoral scheme,...
Parochial church meetings and councils
10.(1) A pastoral scheme which creates a new parish may...
11.(1) Where a pastoral scheme provides for two or more...
Marriages and banns of matrimony
12.(1) Section 10(1) of the Marriage Act 1949 (which provides...
Burial rights in new or altered parishes
13.(1) On a union of parishes by virtue of a...
Provisions relating only to pastoral schemes affecting diocesan boundaries
14.(1) Where a benefice or parish or extra-parochial place is...
SCHEDULE 4
Compensation of Clergy
1.The incumbent of a benefice dissolved by a pastoral scheme...
2.If the incumbent of any benefice or the archdeacon of...
3.Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions, the...
4.The right to and the amount of compensation payable under...
5.(1) The compensation shall consist of periodical payments or a...
6.In determining whether any claimant has suffered loss giving a...
7.If any person who is receiving compensation under this Schedule...
8.Any person who has been refused compensation under this Schedule...
9.If any person who is claiming or receiving or has...
10.It shall be the duty of every claimant and every...
11.(1) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, where...
12.(1) The functions of the mission and pastoral committee under...
13.(1) For the purposes of this Schedule there shall be...
14.The Rule Committee established by section 25 of the Care...
15.Payments of compensation under this Schedule shall be made by...
SCHEDULE 5
The Churches Conservation Trust
1.The members of the Churches Conservation Trust shall hold office...
2.The Trust may act notwithstanding any vacancy among its members....
3.The quorum of the Trust shall be three or such...
SCHEDULE 6
Disposal of Human Remains
1.The body or person in whom the building, part of...
2.Any notice required to be published and served under paragraph...
3.(1) The personal representatives or relatives of any deceased person...
4.Any human remains interred in the building or land which...
5.Any tombstone, monument or other memorial commemorating any deceased person...
6.Any tombstone, monument or other memorial not disposed of in...
7.The removal of all human remains shall be effected, and...
8.Upon any removal of remains a certificate of removal and...
9.Any tombstone, monument or other memorial not disposed of in...
10.Where any tombstone, monument or other memorial is removed from...
11.The requirements of this Schedule shall be in addition to...
12.In this Schedule “ commonwealth war burial ” means a...
SCHEDULE 7
Sequestration of Benefice Property during Suspension Period
1.During any suspension period the sequestrators in addition to exercising...
2.(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Act...
3.Moneys received by the diocesan board of finance from the...
4.Where a suspension period immediately follows a period during which...
5.The sequestrators shall annually at such date as the bishop...
6.Where, on the termination of a suspension period in respect...
SCHEDULE 8
Transitional Provisions
Where any action, proposals, draft pastoral schemes or orders or...
SCHEDULE 9
Repeals