The Payments to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2008

Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 1968

Ecclesiastical Law, England

The Payments to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2008

Made (Sealed by the Church Commissioners)

3rd June 2008

Approved by the General Synod

6th July 2008

Laid before Parliament

24th July 2008

Coming into force

1st April 2009

We, the Church Commissioners for England, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 53 of the Pastoral Measure 1983(1), as amended by the Pastoral (Amendment) Measure 1994(2) and the Dioceses, Pastoral and Mission Measure 2007(3), hereby make the following Order:

Interpretation

1.  In this Order “the Trust” means the Churches Conservation Trust, “the Commissioners” means the Church Commissioners, “the 1983 Measure” means the Pastoral Measure 1983 and “the funding period” means the period specified in paragraph 2.

Funding period for Part III of 1983 Measure

2.  The funding period for the purposes of Part III of the 1983 Measure shall be the period beginning with 1st April 2009 and ending with 31st March 2012.

Payments to the Trust

3.  In respect of the funding period the total amount (comprising grants made under section 44(10) of the 1983 Measure and moneys allocated under section 52(1) of that Measure) to be paid by the Commissioners to the Trust shall be £4,160,000.

Condition for payments to the Trust

4.  A payment on account of the sum specified in paragraph 3 shall be made to the Trust only when the Commissioners are satisfied that the payment is an appropriate proportion of a specific sum of money needed by the Trust and that the balance of that sum will be paid to the Trust out of moneys provided by Parliament.

Revocation

5.  The Payments to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2005(4) is hereby revoked.

Citation and coming into force

6.  This Order may be cited as The Payments to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2008 and shall come into force on 1st April 2009.

The COMMON SEAL of the Church Commissioners was hereunto affixed on

3rd June 2008

Andrew Brown

Secretary

Church House, London

Approved by the General Synod on

6th July 2008

David Williams

Clerk to the Synod

Church House, London

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides, in respect of the period from 1st April 2009 to 31st March 2012, that the total amount to be paid to the Churches Conservation Trust shall be £4,160,000, comprising grants made by the Church Commissioners and moneys allocated by them out of the net proceeds of sale or exchange of redundant churches or of land occupied by them or net premiums for the grant of leases of such churches or land. The Order also provides that the total amount can only be paid if Parliament approves the payment of an appropriate matching amount.

(1)

1983 No. 1.

(2)

1994 No. 1.

(3)

2007 No. 1.

(4)

S.I. 2005/3202.