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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2Contents of Reorganisation Schemes

Provisions relating to bishops

2A scheme by which a new bishopric is to be founded and a new diocese is created shall specify the see of the bishop of the diocese and provide for—

(a)constituting the bishop of the diocese a corporation sole and investing him with all such rights, privileges and jurisdictions as are possessed by any other diocesan bishop in England;

(b)subjecting the bishop to the metropolitan jurisdiction of one of the archbishops; and

(c)the election of a bishop of the diocese.

3A scheme by which a diocese is to be dissolved shall provide for abolishing the bishopric and conferring rights to compensation on the bishop of the diocese in accordance with paragraph 16 below.