Clergy Discipline Measure 2003

44 Amendment of Measures

(1) In section 95 of the Pluralities Act 1838 (c. 106) at the end there shall be inserted the words “And provided further that the power conferred by this section shall not be exercised by reason of any act or omission referred to in section 8(1) of the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003.”

(2) The 1963 Measure shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Schedule 1 to this Measure.

(3) In section 5(5) of the Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers Measure 1976 (1976 No. 2) for the words “date of service of the instrument” there shall be substituted the words “service of the instrument or such earlier date as the archbishop or bishop, as the case may be, may allow”.

(4) In section 10 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986 (1986 No. 2)—

(a) in the definition of “ecclesiastical judges” after the words “Commissary General” there shall be inserted the words “, the president and deputy president of tribunals for the purposes of the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003”;

(b) in the definition of “legal officers” after the words “provincial registrars,” there shall be inserted the words “the registrar of tribunals for the purposes of the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003,”.

(5) In the first column of the table in Schedule 1 to the Church of England (Legal Aid) Measure 1994 (1994 No. 3)—

(a) in item 1 after the words “before any” there shall be inserted the words “disciplinary tribunal”, and at the end there shall be inserted the words “or of misconduct under the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003”;

(b) in item 3 after the word “committee” there shall be inserted the words “and including also that Schedule as applied by section 41 of the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003”.