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F1Sch. 3 substituted (1.1.2020) by Church Representation and Ministers Measure 2019 (No. 1), s. 1(3), Sch. 1 (with Sch. 3); S.I. 2019/1460, art. 2
62(1)A person is disqualified from being nominated or elected or from serving as a member of the General Synod if the person holds or takes a paid office or employment the appointment to which is, or may be, made or confirmed by—E
(a)the General Synod,
(b)the Convocations,
(c)the Archbishops' Council,
(d)the Church Commissioners,
(e)the Church of England Pensions Board, or
(f)the Corporation of the Church House.
(2)A person is not disqualified under paragraph (1)(d) merely because the person is appointed as a Church Commissioner in receipt of a salary or other emoluments.
(3)A person is disqualified from being nominated, chosen or elected or from serving as a member of a PCC if the person has been disqualified from holding office under section 10(6) of the Incumbents (Vacation of Benefices) Measure 1977 (breakdown of pastoral relationships).
(4)Nothing in this Part of these Rules, so far as relating to membership of a PCC, affects the application of any enactment providing for the disqualification of a person from being a trustee of a charity (and, accordingly, from being a member of a PCC).
(5)For further provision as to disqualification, see Rule 68 (safeguarding).
(6)For provision as to disqualification from being elected as a churchwarden, see section 2 of the Churchwardens Measure 2001.]
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