(1)The Standing Committee of the General Synod (hereafter referred to as “the Standing Committee”) shall appoint a Commission to be known as the Dioceses Commission (hereafter referred to as “the Commission”), and the Commission shall have such functions as are conferred or imposed on it by or under this Measure.
(2)The Commission may appoint committees consisting of such of its members as it may designate and may delegate to any such committee such of the functions of the Commission as it thinks fit.
(3)The Commission shall present annually to the General Synod a report of its activities during the preceding year.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 1(1): functions transferred (1.1.1999) by S.I. 1998/1715, arts. 1(2)(4), 2, Sch. 1; Instrument dated 14.10.1998 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York
(1)It shall be the duty of the Commission, on the instructions of the General Synod, the Standing Committee, or the House of Bishops of the General Synod, to advise on matters affecting the diocesan structure of the provinces of Canterbury and York or on the action which might be taken under this Measure to improve the episcopal oversight of any diocese therein or the administration of its affairs.
(2)Where it appears to the Commission that there is any such matter as is mentioned in subsection (1) above on which it might usefully advise, it may bring that matter to the attention of the General Synod or the Standing Committee with a view to receiving instructions under that subsection.
(3)The Commission shall be available to be consulted by any diocesan synod or the bishop of any diocese on any action which might be taken under this Measure in relation to the diocese.
(1)It shall be the duty of the Commission to prepare and make schemes in accordance with sections 5 and 6 of this Measure, and a scheme made under the said section 6 and confirmed by Order in Council under section 7 is referred to in this Measure as a “reorganisation scheme”.
(2)A reorganisation scheme may make provision for one or more of the following purposes:—
(a)the foundation of a new bishopric with a diocese constituted from existing dioceses and, if necessary, the dissolution of an existing diocese and the abolition of the bishopric thereof;
(b)the transfer of the whole of the area of any diocese to another diocese and the dissolution of the first mentioned diocese and the abolition of the bishopric thereof;
(c)the transfer of parts of the area of any diocese to other dioceses and, if necessary, the dissolution of the first mentioned diocese and the abolition of the bishopric thereof;
(d)the transfer of a diocese from one province to the other.
(3)The Schedule to this Measure, which sets out the provisions which must or may be made by a reorganisation scheme, shall have effect.