Abuse Redress Measure 2025

Prospective

21 Contributions and co-operation E

(1) The redress body, having made an award of redress, may request from one or more appropriate authorities—

(a) in so far as the award is a redress payment, a financial contribution;

(b) in so far as the award involves some other remedy—

(i) a financial contribution towards payments for the provision of that remedy;

(ii) the authority’s commitment to co-operate in the provision of the remedy by taking whatever steps are reasonably required to provide that remedy.

(2) The rules may enable the redress body, having awarded a redress payment, to request a financial contribution from a person identified as having carried out abuse to which the application relates.

(3) An “appropriate authority” is, in the case of a person identified as having carried out abuse to which the application relates and who is of a description given in the first column of the following table, the person specified in the second column—

Person identified as having committed abuse	Appropriate authority
An archbishop or a diocesan bishop	The Church Commissioners
A suffragan bishop or archdeacon	The diocesan board of finance for the diocese which includes the suffragan see or archdeaconry
A clerk in Holy Orders who has a form of authority to exercise ministry in a parish	The PCC for the parish
The dean, ministers, lay officers or staff of a cathedral	The Chapter of the cathedral
A clerk in Holy Orders employed by, or licensed to minister at the direction of, a diocesan board of finance	The diocesan board of finance
A clerk in Holy Orders licensed to minister and who does not come within any of the preceding entries in this table	The person entitled to grant the licence
A candidate for ordination undergoing a process of discernment overseen by a clerk in Holy Orders acting in a role commonly referred to as “diocesan director of ordinands”	The bishop of the diocese in which the candidate is undergoing the process
A person in training at a theological education institution as a candidate for ordination or a member of staff in the institution	The governing body of the theological education institution
A lay worker or reader licensed to a parish, another office holder within a parish or a member of staff or other worker in or volunteer for the PCC for a parish	The PCC for the parish
A member of staff in a National Church Institution	The National Church Institution
An officer or member of staff of a diocesan board of finance	The diocesan board of finance
A member of staff in the private office of a diocesan or suffragan bishop	The diocesan or suffragan bishop
A member or officer of a religious community or a person training to become a member of a religious community	The religious community
A person authorised to exercise ministry under a bishop’s mission order	The person responsible for the organisation, governing and financing of the mission initiative or, if no such person is specified in the order, the bishop of each diocese affected
A person commissioned or sent by a mission agency	The mission agency

(4) In the table—

• “cathedral” means a cathedral to which the Cathedrals Measure 2021 applies or the cathedral church of Christ in Oxford and “ministers”, in relation to a cathedral, is to be read with section 12(12) of that Measure;

• “mission agency” means a World Mission Agency of the Church of England which is a full member of the Partnership for World Mission and, in the case of a mission agency that is an unincorporated charity, is to be read as referring to the charity trustees;

• “PCC” means parochial church council;

• “religious community” has the same meaning as in the Canons (see Canon DA 1);

• “theological education institution” means an institution recognised by the House of Bishops as an institution for training candidates for ordination.

(5) In the application of this section to the diocese in Europe, subsection (3) has effect as if—

(a) a reference to a parish were a reference to a chaplaincy, and

(b) a reference to the PCC of a parish were a reference to the council of the chaplaincy.

(6) In a case where a person identified as having carried out abuse to which the application relates is the dean or a member of the clergy, lay officer or member of staff of the cathedral church of Christ in Oxford, this section has effect as if the reference in subsection (3) to the Chapter of the cathedral were a reference to the person specified in the rules.

(7) In this section, a reference to a person identified as having carried out abuse to which an application relates is a reference to a person identified in the application, or in material relevant to it, as a person who carried out abuse to which the application relates.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 21 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 33(3)