33Duty to disclose criminal convictions and arrests
(1)A person in Holy Orders who (whether in England or elsewhere) is convicted of an offence or is arrested on suspicion of committing an offence shall be under a duty, within the period of twenty-eight days following the conviction or arrest,—
(a)in the case of a priest or deacon, to inform the bishop of the diocese concerned,
(b)in the case of a bishop, to inform the archbishop concerned, and
(c)in the case of an archbishop, to inform the other archbishop,
of the conviction or arrest.
(2)Failure to comply with the requirements of subsection (1) above shall be regarded as a failure to do an act required by the laws ecclesiastical for the purposes of section 8(1) above.