The Grants to the Redundant Churches Fund Order 1989

Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 463

ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND

The Grants to the Redundant Churches Fund Order 1989

Made

13th March 1989

Coming into force

1st April 1989

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(1) and (2) of the Redundant Churches and other Religious Buildings Act 1969(1) and now vested in him(2), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order, in the terms of a draft approved by resolution of the House of Commons:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Grants to the Redundant Churches Fund Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st April 1989.

Period for grants to the Redundant Churches Fund

2.  The period beginning with 1st April 1989 and expiring on 31st March 1994 is hereby specified for the purposes of section 1(1) of the Redundant Churches and other Religious Buildings Act 1969.

Aggregate Amount of Grants

3.  The aggregate amount of the grants that may be paid under section 1(1) of the 1969 Act in the period specified in article 2 of this Order shall not exceed £8,700,000.

Nicholas Ridley

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

2nd March 1989

We approve,

David Lightbown

David MacLean

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

13th March 1989

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Redundant Churches Fund has as its object the preservation, in the interests of the nation and the Church of England, of churches and parts of churches of historic and archaeological interest or architectural quality, together with their contents, which are vested in the Fund by Part III of the Pastoral Measure 1983 (1983 No. 1).

This Order specifies the period 1st April 1989 to 31st March 1994 for the purposes of section 1 of the Redundant Churches and other Religious Buildings Act 1969, thus enabling the Secretary of State with the approval of the Treasury to make grants to the Redundant Churches Fund during that period of such amounts, payable at such times and subject to such conditions, if any, as he may from time to time determine. This Order also specifies the sum of £8,700,000 as the maximum aggregate amount of the grants that may be paid over that period.

(1)

1969 c. 22.

(2)

S.I. 1970/1681.