The Ecclesiastical Offices (Age Limit) (Channel Islands) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 2767

CHANNEL ISLANDS

The Ecclesiastical Offices (Age Limit) (Channel Islands) Order 2000

Made

11th October 2000

Coming into force

1st November 2000

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 11th day of October 2000

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas the Scheme set out in the Schedule to this Order has been settled and approved in accordance with the provisions of the Schedule to the Channel Islands (Church Legislation) Measure 1931(1) and there has been due compliance with the procedure required by those provisions:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of section 2 of that Measure of 1931 and section 7(2) of the Ecclesiastical Offices (Age Limit) Measure 1975(2), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order and direct as follows:—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Ecclesiastical Offices (Age Limit) (Channel Islands) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st November 2000.

2.  The Scheme set out in the Schedule to this Order is hereby confirmed.

3.  The Ecclesiastical Offices (Age Limit) Measure 1975 shall apply to the Channel Islands in accordance with the provisions of the said Scheme.

A. K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2

SCHEDULE A SCHEME

Prepared by the Bishop of Winchester in pursuance of the Channel Islands (Church Legislation) Measures 1931 and 1957 for applying the Ecclesiastical Offices (Age Limit) Measures 1975 to the Channel Islands.

PREAMBLE

Whereas section 7(2) of the Ecclesiastical Offices (Age Limit) Measure 1975 provides that the Measure may be applied to the Channel Islands or either of them, as defined in the Channel Islands (Church Legislation) Measures 1931 and 1957, in accordance with the provisions of the last-mentioned Measures:

And whereas the Bishop of Winchester has come to the conclusion that the Measure ought to be applied to the Channel Islands with certain variations and has in accordance with paragraphs 1 to 3 of the Schedule to the Channel Islands (Church Legislation) Measure 1931 prepared the following draft Scheme for the purpose:

SCHEME

Application of the Ecclesiastical Offices (Age Limit) Measure 1975

1.  In its application to the Channel Islands the Ecclesiastical Offices (Age Limit) Measure 1975 shall have effect as if—

(a) section 1(2) were omitted;

(b) in section 1(4), paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) were omitted;

(c) in section 1(5) all words after the words “Measure or in” were omitted and there were substituted the words “any Order made in pursuance of the Channel Islands (Church Legislation) Measures 1931 and 1957”;

(d) section 2 were omitted;

(e) for section 3(1) there were substituted—

“(1) Where the diocesan bishop considers that there are special circumstances which make it desirable that a person holding the office of Dean of Jersey or Dean of Guernsey should continue in that office after the date on which he would otherwise retire in accordance with section 1 of this Measure, the bishop may from time to time authorise the continuance in that office of that person after that date for such period or further period, not exceeding one year in all, as he may specify.”;

(f) for section 3(2) there were substituted—

“(2) Where the diocesan bishop considers that the pastoral needs of a parish in his diocese, or of his diocese, make it desirable that a person holding the office of incumbent of a benefice in his diocese should continue in that office after the date on which he would otherwise retire in accordance with section 1 of this Measure, the bishop may, with the consent of the majority of the Church Wardens and Almoners (if any) of the Parish, from time to time authorise the continuance in that office of that person after that date for such period or further period, not exceeding 2 years in all, as he may specify.”;

(g) section 3(3) were omitted;

(h) sections 4 and 5(2) were omitted;

(i) in section 6, in the definition of “incumbent”, the words “but does not include the Dean or Provost of a Cathedral Church” were omitted;

(j) subsections (3) and (4) of section 7 were omitted;

(k) in the Schedule there were substituted for the listed offices the following offices—

• “Dean of Jersey

• Dean of Guernsey

• Incumbent of a benefice”.

Interpretation

2.  For the purpose of this Scheme, and of the Measure applied to the Channel Islands by this Scheme—

(a) any reference to the Channel Islands or either of them shall have the same meaning as has such a reference in the Channel Islands (Church Legislation) Measure 1931; and

(b) any reference to any other enactment is a reference to that enactment as it has effect in the Channel Islands.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order applies the Ecclesiastical Offices (Age Limit) Measure 1975 to the Channel Islands in accordance with a Scheme prepared by the Bishop of Winchester.

(1)

1931 No. 4, as amended by 1957 No. 1 and 1969 No. 2.

(2)

1975 No. 2.