Dioceses, Pastoral and Mission Measure 2007
Part I
General principle
1
General duty
Part II
Provincial and diocesan structure
Composition and duties of Dioceses Commission
2
Dioceses Commission
3
Review of provincial and diocesan structure
Reorganisation schemes
4
Preparation and making of reorganisation schemes
Procedure for making reorganisation schemes
5
Application for reorganisation scheme
6
Preparation of draft scheme by Commission
7
Making of reorganisation scheme
8
Confirmation of scheme by Order in Council and publication of scheme
9
Supplementary provisions with respect to reorganisation schemes
Power of General Synod to make temporary provision with respect to membership of Convocations
10
Power of General Synod to make temporary provision with respect to membership of Convocations, etc.
Change of name of see
11
Change of name of see
General duty
12
Duty of the bishop to keep episcopal ministry under review
Provisions with respect to discharge of episcopal functions
13
Delegation by instrument of certain functions to suffragan bishop or assistant bishop
14
Discharge of certain functions of bishop
14A
Delegation of archbishop’s functions
15
Special provision with respect to rights of collation
16
Provision with respect to Acts, etc. which confer functions on a diocesan bishop or an archbishop
Creation and filling of suffragan sees
17
Provisions with respect to filling of suffragan sees
18
Provisions with respect to creation of suffragan sees
Provisions with respect to discharge of functions of certain bodies corporate, etc.
19
Schemes with respect to discharge of functions of diocesan bodies corporate, etc.
20
Further provisions with respect to schemes under s.19
Miscellaneous and supplemental
21
Power of Commissioners to pay stipend, etc. of certain bishops
22
Interpretation of Part II
Part III
Procedure for making pastoral schemes and orders and pastoral church buildings schemes
Introduction
23
Amendment of Part I of Pastoral Measure 1983
Pastoral schemes and orders
24
Pastoral schemes and orders
25
Formulation and submission to bishop of draft proposals
26
Approval by bishop of draft proposals and preparation of draft scheme
27
Consideration of draft scheme or order by Commissioners
28
Notice and publication of draft scheme or order
29
Amendment of draft scheme or order
30
Making of scheme or order
31
Transmission of copies of scheme or order
Supplementary
32
Power of bishop to formulate and submit proposals on certain matters
33
Withdrawal of scheme or order at request of bishop
34
Supplementary powers of Commissioners and mission and pastoral committees
Pastoral church buildings schemes
35
Pastoral church buildings schemes
36
Formulation and submission to bishop of draft proposals
37
Amendment of proposals and preparation of draft scheme by Commissioners
38
Notice and publication and amendment of draft scheme
39
Transmission of copies of scheme
Part IV
Church buildings closed for regular public worship
Introduction
40
Amendment of Part III of Pastoral Measure 1983
Functions of mission and pastoral committee concerning buildings closed for regular public worship
41
Functions of mission and pastoral committee concerning buildings closed for regular public worship
Pastoral church buildings schemes
42
Provision by pastoral church buildings scheme for appropriation or demolition of church to be closed for regular public worship to be replaced by new church
43
Other provision by pastoral church buildings scheme for church closed for regular public worship
Pastoral (church buildings disposal) schemes
44
Use seeking period
45
Procedure for making pastoral (church buildings disposal) schemes
46
Contents of pastoral (church buildings disposal) schemes
Part V
Mission
Mission initiatives
47
Mission initiatives
48
Visitors
49
Supplementary Provisions
50
Review of duration of mission initiatives and further provisions
51
Code of Practice
Part VI
Mission and pastoral committees
Mission and pastoral committees
52
Appointment of mission and pastoral committees
53
Functions of mission and pastoral committees
Part VII
Other provisions
Care of church buildings
54
Church Buildings Council
55
Functions of Council in relation to churches, etc. in use
56
Functions of Council in relation to churches proposed for closure for regular public worship
57
General functions of the Council
Pastoral orders
58
Powers exercisable by pastoral order
Team ministries, team councils and new parishes
59
Amendment of Schedule 3 to 1983 Measure
Compensation of Clergy
60
Amendment of Schedule 4 to 1983 Measure
Assistant curates
61
Assistant curates
Part VIII
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
62
Interpretation
63
Amendment of Measures
64
Transitional provisions
65
Repeals
66
Citation, commencement and extent
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1
The Dioceses Commission
Constitution and Membership
1
The Commission shall consist of a person to be known...
2
(1) The Chair and Vice-Chair shall be appointed by the...
3
Four members of the Commission shall be elected by the...
4
A person shall not be qualified for membership of the...
5
A person who ceases to be qualified for membership of...
6
Subject to paragraph 7 below, the members of the Commission...
7
The first appointments and elections of the members of the...
8
Any member of the Commission shall on ceasing to hold...
9
Where a member of the Commission elected by the General...
Casual Vacancies
10
Where a casual vacancy occurs among the members of the...
11
Where a casual vacancy occurs among the members of the...
12
Any person appointed or elected to fill a casual vacancy...
Committees
13
The Commission shall have power to appoint such committees and...
Proceedings
14
The quorum of the Commission shall be five members.
15
Subject to paragraph 16 below the Chair, if present, shall...
16
No person shall preside on any occasion when the Commission...
17
The business of the Commission shall be decided by a...
17A
(1) If the Chair considers that the Commission has business...
18
Subject to paragraph 14 above the Commission may act notwithstanding...
19
Subject to the preceding provisions of this Schedule and to...
SCHEDULE 2
Contents of Reorganisation Schemes
Preliminary
1
In this Schedule a “scheme” means a reorganisation scheme, “the...
Provisions relating to bishops
2
A scheme by which a new bishopric is to be...
3
A scheme by which a diocese is to be dissolved...
Provisions relating to cathedral church etc.
4
(1) Where the scheme creates a new diocese or where...
5
(1) Where a scheme dissolves a diocese or the area...
Provisions relating to abolition of bishoprics
6
(1) A scheme which abolishes a suffragan bishopric shall provide...
Provisions relating to archdeaconries and deaneries
7
(1) A scheme by which a new diocese is to...
8
A scheme by which a diocese or archdeaconry is to...
Provisions relating to patronage
9
(1) A scheme shall provide for transferring to the bishop...
Provisions relating to diocesan synods and other bodies
10
(1) A scheme by which a new diocese is to...
11
A scheme by which a new diocese is to be...
12
(1) A scheme by which a diocese is to be...
Provisions relating to property
13
(1) A scheme by which a new diocese is to...
14
Paragraph 13 above shall apply to a scheme by which...
Provisions relating to records
15
A scheme may make provision for the transfer to the...
Provisions relating to compensation
16
(1) A scheme which provides for the abolition or reduction...
Provision relating to proceedings in consistory court
17
A scheme by which a diocese is dissolved or under...
Provisions relating to supplementary, etc. matters
18
(1) A scheme may make such supplementary, incidental, consequential or...
SCHEDULE 3
Constitution and Procedure of the Mission and Pastoral Committee
1
There shall be a person to be known as “the...
2
The bishop, if he so wishes, may be a member...
3
Unless the bishop is the Chair, the Chair shall be...
4
All the archdeacons in the diocese shall be members or,...
5
Subject to paragraphs 1 to 4 above, the members of...
6
The written constitution of the committee shall provide for a...
7
Subject to paragraph 6 above, the committee may act notwithstanding...
8
The committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees and to...
9
The committee may delegate any of its functions to a...
10
The committee and any sub-committee shall have power to appoint...
11
The committee shall have power to make provision for the...
12
Subject to the preceding provisions of this Schedule and to...
SCHEDULE 4
The Church Buildings Council
Membership
1
The Council shall consist of a person who shall be...
2
The following members shall be appointed by the Archbishops of...
3
Not more than two persons may be co-opted by the...
4
Three members shall be elected by the General Synod from...
5
The following persons shall not be eligible for membership of...
6
The Chair of the Council shall hold office for such...
7
Subject to paragraph 8 below, the other members of the...
8
The first appointments and elections of the members of the...
9
A member (other than the Chair) shall on ceasing to...
10
A member of the Council appointed under paragraph 2(b) above...
Casual vacancies
11
Where a casual vacancy occurs among the Chair or the...
12
Where a casual vacancy occurs among the members of the...
13
Where a casual vacancy occurs among the co-opted members of...
14
Any person appointed or elected to fill a casual vacancy...
Committees
15
The Council shall have power to appoint such committees and...
16
Persons who are not members of the Council may be...
17
Without prejudice to paragraph 15 above, there shall be a...
18
The Statutory Advisory Committee shall consist of a person who...
19
The Statutory Advisory Committee shall, on behalf of the Council,...
20
The Council may delegate such other functions to and seek...
21
The Statutory Advisory Committee shall report to the Council on...
22
The procedure of the Statutory Advisory Committee shall be as...
Delegation to officers
22A
The Council may delegate to an officer such functions as...
Proceedings
23
The quorum of the Council shall be eight members.
24
The business of the Council shall be decided by a...
25
The Chair, if present, shall preside over meetings but, if...
26
Subject to paragraph 23 above, the Council may act notwithstanding...
27
Subject to the preceding provisions of this Schedule, the Council...
SCHEDULE 5
Amendment of Pastoral Measure 1983
1
The Pastoral Measure 1983 (1983 No. 1) shall be amended...
2
In section 12(1)(b) for the words from the words “shall...
3
Any joint pastoral committee established or to be established under...
4
In section 20(4), for the word “designate” there shall be...
5
In section 21(3) for the word “designate” there shall be...
6
In section 24— (a) after subsection (1) there shall be...
7
In section 44— (a) any reference to the Advisory Board...
8
In section 52, that section shall become subsection (1) and...
9
In section 53— (a) in subsection (1)(a), for the words...
10
In section 54(2), for the words “, made and confirmed”...
11
In section 57(4) the words “or (c)” shall be omitted....
12
Section 64 of the 1983 Measure shall be amended as...
13
In section 67— (a) after subsection (5), there shall be...
14
For the heading to section 68 substitute— “ During suspension...
15
In section 70— (a) in the heading for “Benefices (Exercise...
16
In section 78(3) there shall be added at the end...
17
In section 86(1), in the definition of “parish”, after the...
18
In section 87— (a) the definition of “the Advisory Board”...
19
In section 90(3) after the words “section 3(1)” there shall...
20
In paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 3 after the words “new...
21
In paragraph 4 of Schedule 4, for the words “confirmation...
22
Schedule 7 shall be amended as follows—
23
The redundant churches temporary maintenance account shall be renamed “the...
SCHEDULE 6
Transitional Provisions
1
In this Schedule “the 1978 Measure” means the Dioceses Measure...
2
Any reorganisation scheme made under section 6 and confirmed by...
3
Any instrument made by a bishop under section 10 of...
4
Where any proposal has been made by a bishop under...
5
(1) Any scheme made under section 11 of the 1978...
6
Where, on the coming into force of Parts III and...
7
Any pastoral scheme or order or redundancy scheme made, but...
8
Any pastoral committee or diocesan redundant churches uses committee for...
SCHEDULE 7
Repeals

Dioceses, Pastoral and Mission Measure 2007
2007 No. 1
A Measure passed by the General Synod of the Church of England to further the mission of the Church of England and, in particular, to make new provision, in place of the Dioceses Measure 1978 and section 8 of the Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1983, for reviewing the provincial and diocesan structure of the Church of England and for making reorganisation schemes, for the change of name of sees, and for the creation and filling of suffragan sees, for the nomination of suffragan bishops and the delegation of functions to them and to other persons in episcopal orders and for the discharge of functions of certain diocesan bodies; to amend the Pastoral Measure 1983 in respect of the making of pastoral schemes and orders and of schemes for the closure of churches for regular public worship; to enable a diocesan bishop, by order, to endorse and make provision for mission initiatives; to make new provision for mission and pastoral committees; to replace the Council for the Care of Churches with a body named the Church Buildings Council and make new provision for it; to make provision for the description of assistant curates and for their functions; to make other amendments to the Pastoral Measure 1983; and for connected purposes.
[30th October 2007]