Pastoral (Amendment) Measure 1994

6 Funding periods

In section 53 of the 1983 Measure (orders of Commissioners determining or varying payments to Redundant Churches Fund)—

(a) in subsection (1)—

(i) in paragraph (a) for the words “in respect of each five year” there shall be substituted the words “the funding periods for the purposes of this Part and in respect of each funding”;

(ii) in paragraphs (b) and (c) for the words “five year” there shall be substituted in both places the word “funding”;

(b) in subsection (5) at the end there shall be inserted the words “and the subsequent order may contain such transitional provisions as the Commissioners may consider necessary or expedient to give effect to the variation or revocation”;

(c) after subsection (6) there shall be inserted—

“(6A) Where the Standing Committee of the General Synod determines that an order made under this section does not need to be debated by the General Synod, then, unless notice is given by a member of the General Synod in accordance with its Standing Orders that he wishes the order to be debated, the order shall for the purposes of subsection (6) be deemed to have been approved by the General Synod.”.