Prospective
(1)The amount of a financial contribution under section 21 is to be determined in accordance with the rules.
(2)Financial contributions of different amounts, or co-operation of different kinds, may be requested under section 21 from different persons (including from different persons of the same description).
(3)The Archbishops’ Council may prepare, and from time to time revise, guidance for appropriate authorities on the operation of section 21, including in particular—
(a)the form which a remedy other than the award of a redress payment may take, and
(b)co-operating in the provision of a remedy of that kind.
(4)In co-operating for the purpose mentioned in subsection (3)(b), an appropriate authority must have due regard to that guidance.
(5)A request under subsection section 21(1)(b) to an appropriate authority may be made on more than one occasion, subject to whatever time limit is specified in the rules.
(6)The absence from the first column of the table in section 21(3) of a reference to a person of a particular description is not by itself to be taken as meaning that an application for redress under section 3 cannot be made in a case where the person who carried out the abuse was of that description.
(7)A person specified in the second column of the table in section 21(3) may choose to make a payment into the redress fund, or co-operate with the provision of some other remedy, even if the person has not been requested to do so.
Commencement Information
I1S. 22 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 33(3)