Finance

Payments from Church Commissioners’ general fund
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1
The Church Commissioners must pay sums by way of stipend or such other emoluments as they may determine—
a
to the dean of each cathedral, and
b
for two full-time equivalent residentiary canons of each cathedral engaged on cathedral duties.
2
The Chapter of a cathedral may, with the consent of the Church Commissioners, pay additional emoluments to the dean or to any residentiary canon for whom the Church Commissioners are required to make a payment under subsection (1)(b).
3
Where a person is appointed as dean of a cathedral, or as a residentiary canon the cost of whose stipend is to be met by the Church Commissioners under subsection (1), the Church Commissioners may make a grant to that person towards removal expenses incurred by him or her.
4
The Church Commissioners may make grants for—
a
paying the stipend or other emoluments of any clerk in Holy Orders holding office in the cathedral, other than a dean or residentiary canon;
b
paying the salary or other emoluments of any lay person employed by the Chapter or engaged to provide services in connection with the cathedral.
5
The Church Commissioners may make grants to the Chapter of a cathedral for the purpose of securing the better provision of houses for clerks in Holy Orders who hold office in the cathedral.
6
The Church Commissioners may make grants to the Chapter of a cathedral for the repair of a chancel, other than the chancel of the cathedral, which the Chapter is wholly or partly liable to repair.
7
The Church Commissioners may make grants for the purpose of supporting cathedrals to such bodies as appear to the Church Commissioners to represent cathedrals.
8
A grant or other payment by the Church Commissioners under this section is to be made out of their general fund; and the amount of any such grant or other payment is to be such amount as they from time to time determine.
9
In the application of this section to each cathedral of the diocese of Leeds, subsection (1) has effect as if for “two full-time equivalent residentiary canons” there were substituted “one full-time equivalent residentiary canon”; but, in the case of each of those cathedrals, this subsection applies to that cathedral only if the Bishop of Leeds has given consent for it to apply to it.