The Care of Places of Worship Rules 1999

Citation and commencement

1.  These Rules may be cited as the Care of Places of Worship Rules 1999 and shall come into force on the day appointed under section 7(2) of the Measure for the coming into operation of section 1 thereof.

Interpretation

2.  In these Rules–

“application” means an application made for the purposes of the Measure

and “applicant” shall be construed accordingly;

“the Council” means the Council for the Care of Churches;

“the Measure” means the Care of Places of Worship Measure 1999.

Mode of application

3.—(1) An application shall be in writing in a form approved by the Council, signed by or on behalf of the applicant or applicants, and shall be sent by post or delivered to the office of the Council.

(2) In the case of an application made in the name of a corporate body or an unincorporated body of persons, the application shall be signed by one or more members or officers of the body duly authorised to do so.

(3) An application shall not be regarded as made until it is received by the Council and, within fourteen days thereafter, the Council shall issue a written acknowledgement of its receipt to the applicant or applicants.

Contents of application for inclusion

4.  An application for the inclusion of a building in the list shall contain or be accompanied by the material specified in the Schedule to these Rules and on receiving such an application the Council may require the production of such further material as it thinks fit for the purpose of establishing that the building is eligible for inclusion in the list.

Contents of application for removal

5.  An application for the removal of a building from the list shall identify the building by reference to the relevant entry in the list and shall contain or be accompanied by the material specified in paragraphs 1, 15, 16 and 17 of the Schedule to these Rules.

Contents of list

6.  The material specified in Part I of the Schedule to these Rules shall be contained in or attached to the list.

Notification of Council’s decisions

7.—(1) Within the period of twenty-eight days following the receipt of an application the Council shall either–

(a) notify the applicant or applicants of its decision thereon and, if the application is rejected, the reasons for the rejection; or

(b) require the production of further material in pursuance of Rule 4 above.

(2) If further material is required in pursuance of Rule 4 above, paragraph (1) above shall apply with the substitution for the words “receipt of an application” of the words “receipt of further material”.

Supplementary provisions re. removal from list

8.  Where, in pursuance of section 2(2) of the Measure, the Council gives the relevant person or body an opportunity to show reason why a building should not be removed from the list, it shall allow the person or body at least twenty-eight days within which to do so and, if the building is removed from the list, shall, as soon as practicable but not later than twenty-eight days after its removal, notify the relevant person or body of its removal.

Guidance by diocesan chancellors

9.  Any written guidance given by the chancellor of a diocese in pursuance of section 11(8) of the Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1991 in relation to buildings, objects and structures in the diocese shall apply in relation to buildings, objects and structures in the diocese which are subject to the faculty jurisdiction by virtue of the Measure as it applies to those which are so subject otherwise than by virtue of the Measure.

Sheila Cameron

John Bullimore

William Hawkes

Joanna Ingram

Lionel Lennox

Julian Litten

John Owen

+ Ian Petriburg:

Frank Robson

Ian Russell

Dated this 4th day of June 1999

D M Williams

Clerk to the Synod

Approved by the General Synod this 10th day of July 1999