Subject to subsection (2) below, the Commissioners may from time to time pay out of their general fund such sums as they think fit towards the stipend of any person holding the office of archdeacon.

Any person who immediately before the appointed day holds the office of archdeacon shall so long as he continues in that office be entitled to receive from the Commissioners an annual grant of a sum not less in amount than that payable to him by the Commissioners as endowment income of the archdeaconry immediately before that day whether in exercise of their powers under the M1Archdeaconries (Augmentation) Measure 1953 or in the discharge of any obligation imposed on them by or under any other enactment or by any trust.