Clergy Discipline Measure 2003

4 In section 7—

(a) in subsection (1A) after the word “York” there shall be inserted the words “(including that Court as constituted in accordance with the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003”);

(b) after subsection (1A) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(1B) Each of the said Courts shall also have jurisdiction to hear and determine appeals from judgments, orders or decrees of disciplinary tribunals within the provinces for which they are constituted respectively.”.

(c) in subsection (2) for the words from “(a) in a civil suit” to the end there shall be substituted the words—

“(a) in a disciplinary case, at the instance of any party to the proceedings on a question of law and the defendant on a question of fact;

(b) in any other case, at the instance of any party to the proceedings but only with the leave of the consistory court or the Vicar-General’s Court as the case may be or, if leave is refused by that court, of the Dean of the Arches and Auditor.”