Abuse Redress Measure 2025

Prospective

9 Application for redress E

(1) An application for redress under this Measure must be made to the redress body in accordance with the rules.

(2) The application must, subject to subsection (3), be made—

(a) before the end of the period of five years beginning with the date on which this section comes into force, or

(b) if the General Synod resolves to extend that period, before the end of the extended period.

(3) Where a provision of the rules specifies a date as the final date on which applications for redress may be made—

(a) subsection (2) does not apply (except for the purposes of subsection (4)), and

(b) no application for redress may be made after the date so specified.

(4) The date so specified must be within the final 12 months of the period provided for under subsection (2).

(5) Rules making provision under subsection (3) may also make provision about the operation of this Measure after the date specified under that subsection; and that provision may specify a date as the date after which no further steps may be taken on an application or appeal under this Measure which has yet to be determined.

(6) The application may relate only to abuse which took place on or before the date specified in the rules (which may be after the commencement of this section).

(7) The application may relate to abuse which took place in England, elsewhere in the United Kingdom or outside the United Kingdom.

(8) But the application may not be made in such cases as are specified in the rules.

(9) The application may be made or continued by two or more persons acting jointly in such cases as are specified in the rules; and, where an application is so made or continued, a reference in this Measure to the applicant is to be read as a reference to the persons acting jointly.

(10) The rules may enable the redress body, in determining an application for redress and subject to the restrictions in subsection (11), to request information from—

(a) a person identified in the application, or in material relevant to it, as a person who carried out abuse to which the application relates, or

(b) if that person has died, a surviving relative of that person.

(11) The redress body may exercise the power conferred under subsection (10) only—

(a) if it has reasonable grounds to believe that making the request will help it to determine the application (whether in deciding whether the conditions in section 3 have been met or in some other way), or

(b) in such other circumstances as the rules may specify.

(12) Where this section comes into force on a different date for the purposes of section 3 from the date on which it comes into force for the purposes of section 6, the reference in subsection (2)(a) to the date on which this section comes into force is to be read for the purposes of each section as a reference to the first of those dates; accordingly, the period provided for under subsection (2) ends at the same time for the purposes of section 3 as it does for the purposes of section 6.

(13) The Statutory Instruments Act 1946 applies to a resolution under subsection (2)(b) as if this Measure were an Act of Parliament providing for the instrument containing the resolution to be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 9 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 33(3)