Team and Group Ministries Measure 1995

5 Pastoral orders

(1) Section 37 of the 1983 Measure (powers exercisable by pastoral order) shall have effect subject to the following amendments.

(2) That section shall be re-numbered as subsection (1) thereof.

(3) For paragraph (e) there shall be substituted—

“(e) the power to—

(i) assign a special cure of souls or other responsibilities to vicars in team ministries under section 20(8);

(ii) assign to any member of a team who is not a member of the team chapter a special responsibility for pastoral care, so far as consistent with that member’s office, under section 20(8A);

(iii) specify the term of years (for which certain members of a team are to hold office or serve) for the purposes of section 20(2), (3) and (3A) under section 22(1)(cc);

(iv) alter a team ministry or change the office of a rector or vicar in a team ministry under section 22(1)(b) or (c);

(v) alter a team ministry under section 22(1)(bb) or (bbb);

(vi) alter a group ministry under section 22(1)(e);

(vii) provide for supplementary, consequential or transitional matters under section 22(1)(f);”.

(4) At the end there shall be inserted—

“(2) In the case of a team ministry established for the area of any benefice under a pastoral scheme made and confirmed by Order in Council under the Pastoral Measure 1968, being a team ministry in respect of which the Commissioners have determined under section 20A that subsections (1) and (2) of that section are not to apply, a pastoral order may apply those subsections to the team ministry.”.