Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018

11 The Dean of the Arches and Auditor: term of office

(1) The term of a person’s appointment as the Dean of the Arches and Auditor—

(a) begins with the date of the appointment, and

(b) subject to the following provisions of this section, ends with the day on which the person reaches the age of 75.

(2) The Dean of the Arches and Auditor may resign the office by instrument in writing signed by him or her and addressed to, and served on, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.

(3) The Archbishops of Canterbury and York acting jointly may remove the Dean of the Arches and Auditor from office if the Upper House of each of the Convocations resolves that he or she is incapable of acting or unfit to act; and such a resolution must be filed in the registry of the province concerned.

(4) Where the Dean of the Arches and Auditor reaches the age of 75 during the course of proceedings in the Arches Court of Canterbury or the Chancery Court of York, he or she may continue to act as a judge for the purposes of those proceedings as if the day on which the proceedings concluded in that Court were the day on which he or she reached that age.