Part 5

Contents and effect of pastoral schemes and orders

Pastoral schemes affecting more than one diocese

Limited extension of pastoral schemes to other dioceses
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1
A pastoral scheme may, if the conditions specified in section 15 are complied with, apply to a diocese other than the diocese in which the proposal for the scheme originated, to the extent that the scheme may provide—
a
for a union of benefices or parishes comprising one or more benefices or parishes from each of the two dioceses;
b
for creating a new benefice (otherwise than by union) for an area comprising areas from the two dioceses;
c
for the transfer of a benefice from the diocese in which it is to the other diocese;
d
for the transfer of a parish from a benefice in one diocese to a benefice in the other;
e
for creating a new extra-parochial place comprising areas from the two dioceses or transferring an extra-parochial place from one diocese to the other, whether by means of incorporation in a parish or otherwise;
f
for altering the boundaries between a parish or extra-parochial place in one diocese and a parish or extra-parochial place in the other;
g
for the holding in plurality of benefices comprising one or more benefices from each diocese;
h
for establishing a group ministry for a group of benefices comprising one or more benefices from each diocese;
and may also provide, in relation to any benefice, parish or extra-parochial place affected by such a provision for any of the matters for which provision may be made by a pastoral scheme in relation to benefices, parishes and extra-parochial places wholly comprised in one diocese, subject to such modifications as may be necessary or expedient in consequence of the application of the scheme to another diocese.
2
The powers conferred by subsection (1) may be exercised in relation to more than one diocese (other than the diocese in which the proposals for the scheme originated), and in that case shall include power to create a benefice or parish (by union or otherwise) or an extra-parochial place comprising benefices, parishes or areas from all the dioceses concerned, or to alter a benefice, parish or extra-parochial place so as to comprise areas from all those dioceses, or to establish a group ministry for benefices from all those dioceses.
3
A pastoral scheme to which this section applies shall, in the case of any benefice, parish or extra-parochial place which includes areas from two or more dioceses, allocate it to such one of those dioceses and to such archdeaconry and deanery in that diocese as the scheme may designate.
4
A pastoral scheme providing for establishing a group ministry for benefices from two or more dioceses shall make such transfers of benefices from one diocese to another as may be necessary to bring the whole group within the diocese designated by the scheme.