Ecclesiastical Offices (Age Limit) Measure 1975
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Ecclesiastical Offices(Age Limit) Measure 1975
A MEASURE passed by the General Synod of the Church of England to make provision with respect to the age limit for the holding of certain ecclesiastical offices.
[1st August 1975]
1 Age limit for appointment, etc. to certain ecclesiastical offices.
(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, no person shall be capable of being appointed or presented to an office listed in the Schedule to this Measure if at the time of his appointment or presentation he has attained the age of seventy years.
(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to an office in a Royal Peculiar nor to the office of residentiary canon in a cathedral church if the canonry is annexed to a professorship in a university nor to the office of dean of the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford.
(3) Subject to the following provisions of this Measure, a person who holds an office listed in the Schedule to this Measure shall vacate that office on the day on which he attains the age of seventy years.
(4) Subsection (3) of this section shall not apply to—
( a ) any person who holds an office in a Royal Peculiar; or
( b ) any person who holds a residentiary canonry which is annexed to a professorship in a university; or
( c ) any person who holds the office of dean of the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford; or
( d ) any person who at the commencement of this Measure holds any office listed in the said Schedule unless and until he vacates the office held by him at the said commencement.
(5) The foregoing provisions shall have effect notwithstanding anything in any Measure passed before the date of the passing of this Measure, or in any instrument made under such a Measure or in the constitution and statutes of a cathedral church.
2 Archbishop may continue in office for certain period after attaining retiring age at discretion of Her Majesty.
Where Her Majesty considers that there are special circumstances which make it desirable that a person holding the office of archbishop should continue in that office after the date on which he would otherwise retire in accordance with the foregoing section, She may authorise the continuance in office of that person after that date for such period, not exceeding one year, as She may in her discretion determine.
3 Provisions with respect to continuance in office of other office holders after attainment of retiring age.
(1) Where—
( a ) an archbishop considers that there are special circumstances which make it desirable that a person holding the office of diocesan bishop in his province should continue in that office after the date on which he would otherwise retire in accordance with section 1 of this Measure, or
( b ) a diocesan bishop considers that there are special circumstances which make it desirable that a person holding the office of suffragan bishop, dean, provost, residentiary canon or archdeacon in his diocese should continue in that office after the date on which he would otherwise retire in accordance with that section,
the archbishop or bishop, as the case may be, may from time to time authorise the...
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