Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018

34 Prohibition on appointment as archdeacon’s official principal or registrar

(1) The prohibition on making an appointment to the office of official principal of an archdeacon or to the office of registrar of an archdeacon (imposed by section 7 of the Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers Measure 1976) is to continue.

(2) Any duty which, immediately before the commencement of this section, was exercisable by virtue of section 7(2) of the Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers Measure 1976 (duty of chancellor to exercise duties of official principal and duty of diocesan registrar to exercise duties of registrar) is to continue to be exercisable on the same basis.

(3) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that the registrar of an archdeacon has no duty to attend at a visitation of the archdeacon; and, accordingly, the registrar of a diocese has no duty by virtue of subsection (2) to attend at an archdeacon’s visitation.