18Institution of proceedings for injunction or restoration order
(1)Where a bishop has ordered a special visitation and he considers it necessary or expedient to take further steps in respect of any actual or intended contravention of section 2, he may authorise a person designated by him for the purposes of this Measure, either generally or in a particular case, to institute proceedings on his behalf against the Chapter of the cathedral for the purpose of obtaining an injunction or restoration order or both against the Chapter.
(2)Where a bishop proposes to authorise the institution of proceedings under subsection (1), he shall inform the Church Commissioners of the course he proposes to take and the Church Commissioners shall, as soon as practicable—
(a)decide whether or not they would be prepared to pay, under section 58 of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963 (1963 No. 1), any costs or expenses incurred in respect of the proceedings and, if so, to what extent; and
(b)notify the bishop of their decision.