Payments to Redundant Churches Fund Order 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1995

ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND

Payments to Redundant Churches Fund Order 1988

Made (Approved by the General Synod)

9th November 1988

Laid before Parliament

16th November 1988

Coming into operation

1st April 1989

We, the Church Commissioners for England, in exercise of the powers conferred on us by section 53(1) of the Pastoral Measure 1983(1) do hereby order as follows:—

1.  The amount to be paid to the Redundant Churches Fund by the Church Commissioners during the five year period 1st April 1989 to 31st March 1994 shall not exceed £3,700,000.

2.  The amount of the payments which may be made to the said Fund under section 52(1)(a) of the said Measure out of the one-third of the net proceeds of sale and premiums shall not exceed £1,200,000 and such payments shall be applied towards the £3,700,000 referred to in paragraph 1.

3.  Subject to paragraph 4 hereof, the balance of the said amount of £3,700,000 shall be paid by way of grants made to the said Fund by the Church Commissioners under section 44(10) of the said Measure out of their General Fund.

4.  A payment on account of the said £3,700,00 shall be made to the said Fund only when the Church Commissioners are satisfied that (1) the payment is an appropriate proportion of a specific sum of money needed by the Fund and (2) the balance of that sum will be paid to the Fund out of moneys provided by Parliament.

5.  This Order may be cited as the Payments to Redundant Churches Fund Order 1988 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1989.

THE COMMON SEAL of the Church Commissioners was hereunto affixed this 13th day of October 1988

J. E. Shelley

Secretary

APPROVED by the General Synod of The Church of England the 9th day of November 1988

W. D. Pattinson

Secretary General

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1983 No. 1.