Part 6

Buildings closed for regular public worship

Pastoral (church buildings disposal) schemes

Orders of Commissioners determining or varying payments to Churches Conservation Trust
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1
The Commissioners by order—
a
shall determine the funding periods for the purposes of this Part and in respect of each funding period the total amount (comprising grants made under section 57(19) and moneys allocated under section 64(1)) to be paid by the Commissioners to the Churches Conservation Trust;
b
may in respect of any funding period vary the proportions of two-thirds and one-third specified in sections 58(1) and 63(5).
2
An order made under subsection (1) may specify conditions which must be satisfied before a payment is made by the Commissioners.
3
An order made under subsection (1)(b) shall apply to all transactions completed after the date on which the order comes into operation, except such transactions (if any) as may be specified in the order.
4
An order under this section may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order made under it and the subsequent order may contain such transitional provisions as the Commissioners may consider necessary or expedient to give effect to the variation or revocation.
5
Every order made under this section shall be laid before the General Synod and shall not come into operation unless and until it has been approved by the General Synod.
6
Where the Business Committee of the General Synod determines that an order made under this section does not need to be debated by the General Synod, then, unless notice is given by a member of the General Synod in accordance with its Standing Orders that he or she wishes the order to be debated, the order shall for the purposes of subsection (5) be deemed to have been approved by the General Synod.
7
The Statutory Instruments Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6 c. 36) shall apply to any order approved by the General Synod under subsection (5) as if it were a statutory instrument and were made when so approved, and as if this Measure were an Act providing that any such order shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.