Cathedrals Measure 2021

7 Statutes

(1) The statutes must make provision for the good government of the cathedral; and the provision which may be so made includes in particular—

(a) provision for the creation, continuance, abolition, suspension or termination of suspension of a dignity, office or body in the cathedral and for the title by which a dignity or office is to be known;

(b) provision that the power of presentation or nomination to a benefice in the patronage of the cathedral is exercisable by the Chapter or a patronage committee of the Chapter;

(c) if the whole of the cathedral is a parish church, provision that only part of the cathedral is to be the parish church;

(d) if part of the cathedral is a parish church, provision that the whole cathedral or another part of it is to be the parish church.

(2) The statutes must include provision as to the functions of the chief officers.

(3) The statutes must include provision for the establishment of a group concerned with the management of the cathedral (see section 19).

(4) The statutes must include provision for the fostering of the corporate and spiritual life of the Chapter and its members.

(5) The statutes may include consequential, supplementary, incidental or transitional provision.

(6) Provision made in the statutes must be consistent with this Measure and with the constitution.

(7) A reference in this Measure to the statutes in relation to a cathedral is—

(a) in relation to times before the commencement under section 53(3) of certain provisions of this Measure in relation to that cathedral, a reference to the statutes of the cathedral, and

(b) in relation to times after that commencement, a reference to the statutes of the Chapter.