Nothing in this Measure or in Regulations shall have effect so as to enable procedures to be applied in relation to any person to whom this Measure applies in respect of any misconduct within the meaning of section 38 of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963 or section 8 of the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 otherwise than under the said Measure of 1963 or the said Measure of 2003, as the case may be.

Any ecclesiastical office which is a freehold office and vacant on the coming into force of this section and any such office held by any person to whom this Measure applies (whether or not the holder of the office holds any other office) shall cease to be a freehold office, in the case of a vacant office, on the coming into force of this section and, in any other case, on the date of the application of this Measure to the holder of the office.

Where immediately before the coming into force of this section, an office is an office the holder of which is a corporation sole, nothing in this Measure shall affect the status as a corporation sole of the holder of any such office, whether appointed before or after that date.

This Measure shall not apply to a holder of an office in a Royal Peculiar or to the dean and residentiary canons of the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford.

Nothing in this Measure or in Regulations shall prejudice any rights or obligations conferred or imposed on office holders or any other person or authority in any Measure, Canon of the Church of England or otherwise, except so far as this Measure or Regulations otherwise provides or provide.

Nothing in this Measure shall be taken as creating a relationship of employer and employee between an office holder and any other person or body.

Sections 6 and 7 above shall not apply to the archiepiscopal residence known as Lambeth Palace.

The powers conferred upon colleges and halls within the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and other corporate bodies by section 5 of the Parsonages Act 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 23) shall extend and be applicable so as to authorise loans in aid of any regulated transaction.

This Measure shall have effect notwithstanding any provision in the constitution or statutes of a cathedral.