2 Provisions relating to Christ Church Oxford.E
(1)It shall be lawful for the constitution and statutes of the foundation known as the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford to provide for the appointment of not more than two lay canons and to specify the functions of such lay canon or canons.
(2)No such lay canon shall be appointed unless the person concerned is —
(a)a communicant member of the Church of England; or
(b)a member of a church to which the M1Church of England (Ecumenical Relations) Measure 1988 applies and is entitled lawfully to take part in public worship in accordance with the forms of service and practice of the Church of England.
[F1(3)Notwithstanding sections 5 and 6 of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840, which annexed 2 canonries in the chapter of the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford to, respectively, the Lady Margaret's professorship of divinity and the regius professorship of ecclesiastical history, those professorships may be held either by residentiary canons in the chapter or by lay canons appointed pursuant to subsection (1).]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 2(3) substituted (19.5.2014) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2014 (No. 1), ss. 19, 21(2); S.I. 2014/1369, art. 2
Marginal Citations