The Channel Islands (Attachment of the Bailiwick of Guernsey to the Diocese of Salisbury) Order 2022

Special provision for law of Guernsey, Alderney and Sark

5.—(1) Articles 2 and 3 shall have effect in the Bailiwick as a matter of, and for the purposes of, the laws of Guernsey, Alderney and Sark and their respective dependencies and adjacent territorial waters. .

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) and subject to paragraph (2)(b), references to the “Guernsey jurisdiction” in Articles 2 and 3 shall be taken to include such jurisdiction as the Bishop of Winchester had in respect of the Bailiwick (in pursuance of the Order of 1569, the Order of 1583 (for the purposes of the law of Sark) or the customary law, or under any enactment which has come into force, since the Order of 1569 or the Order of 1583 (for the purposes of the law of Sark)).

(3) For the avoidance of doubt—

(a) Nothing in this Order shall affect the establishment of the Bishop of Winchester as the permanent Visitor of Elizabeth College (“the Visitor”) under the Statuses for the Government of Elizabeth College, Guernsey, as they apply from time to time, and

(b) The “Guernsey jurisdiction” does not include the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Winchester as the Visitor, and any powers and duties which may be exercised by the Visitor under those Statuses.

(4) For the purposes of this Article—

“the Order of 1569” means the Order of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth I made on the eleventh day of March 1569 with the advice of Her Privy Council and in exercise of Her prerogatives as Sovereign in right of the Bailiwick pursuant to which the islands of the Bailiwick were attached to the episcopal See of Winchester, and

“the Order of 1583” means the Order of Her late Majesty Queen Elizbeth I made on the twenty-fourth day of April 1583 with the advice of Her Privy Council and in the exercise of Her prerogatives as Sovereign in right of the Bailiwick pursuant to which the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in Sark is reserved to the Bishop of Winchester.