Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016

4 Rules for appeals against suspensions

(1) Rules made under section 26(1) of the Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1991 may make provision for carrying into effect—

(a) section 6B of the Churchwardens Measure 2001 (appeal against suspension of churchwarden in safeguarding case);

(b) Rule 46D of the Church Representation Rules (appeal against suspension of PCC member etc. in safeguarding case);

(c) provision made by Canon to confer a right of appeal against the suspension of a licence to exercise the office of reader or of a licence to serve as a lay worker.

(2) In section 26(1) of the Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1991, after the second paragraph (f) insert—

“(g) the provisions referred to in section 4(1) of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016;”.

(3) In section 25(2) of that Measure (members of Rule Committee), in paragraph (c), after “the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003” insert “or proceedings under any of the provisions referred to in section 4(1) of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016”.