Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018

19 Commissions of review: continuation

(1) There is to continue to be power for Her Majesty to appoint commissioners who are to have jurisdiction to review a finding of the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved in proceedings under section 18.

(2) A party to proceedings in the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved under section 18 may lodge with the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery a petition addressed to Her Majesty praying that She will be pleased to cause a finding of the Court in those proceedings to be reviewed.

(3) A petition under this section—

(a) must be in the form specified in rules;

(b) must be lodged with the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery within the period so specified after the finding to which it relates.

(4) On a petition being lodged under this section, a commission must be directed under the Great Seal to such five persons as Her Majesty may nominate to review the finding to which the petition relates.

(5) Three of the nominees under subsection (4) must be persons each of whom—

(a) is a judge of the Supreme Court or a member of the supplementary panel under section 39 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, and

(b) has made a declaration that he or she is a communicant.

(6) Two of the nominees under subsection (4) must be Lords Spiritual in the House of Lords.

(7) A commission appointed under this section is to be known as a Commission of Review.