Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2000
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | measure 2000 No. 1 |
Church of England(Miscellaneous Provisions)Measure 2000
2000
A Measure passed by the General Synod of the Church of England to transfer certain functions of the Church Commissioners to diocesan bodies; to make provision for the performance of a rural dean's functions during a vacancy, absence or illness; to enable dioceses to re-name rural deans as area deans; to amend section 1 of the Consecration of Churchyards Act 1867; to amend section 12(10) of the City of London (Guild Churches) Act 1952; to amend the Schedule to the Church Funds Investment Measure 1958; to amend section 8 of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963; to amend section 21 of the Repair of Benefice Buildings Measure 1972; to amend section 4 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986; to amend section 3 of the Patronage (Benefices) Measure 1986; to amend section 6 of the Church of England (Legal Aid and Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1988; to repeal certain enactments which are no longer of practical utility; and for purposes connected therewith.
[28th July 2000]
Part I
Transfer of certain functions of Church Commissioners
1 Diocesan accounts.
(1) The duties of the Church Commissioners (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Commissioners’)—
(a) under section 1 of the Diocesan Stipends Funds Measure 1953 to keep a capital account and an income account for the diocesan stipends fund of a diocese, and
(b) under section 77 of the Pastoral Measure 1983 to hold a diocesan pastoral account,
are hereby transferred to the diocesan board of finance of the diocese.
(2) The Commissioners shall, on the appointed day, pay to each diocesan board of finance—
(a) an amount equivalent to the balance outstanding on that day to the credit of the capital account,
(b) an amount equivalent to the balance outstanding on that day to the credit of the income account, and
(c) an amount equivalent to the balance outstanding on that day to the credit of the diocesan pastoral account,
for the diocese concerned and those amounts shall be credited to its capital account, its income account or its diocesan pastoral account as the case may be:
Provided that, if there is no balance outstanding on the appointed day to the credit of the income account of a diocese, any amount then outstanding to the debit of the account shall be treated as a debt due to the Commissioners from the diocesan board of finance concerned.
(3) In this section ‘diocesan board of finance’, ‘diocesan pastoral account’ and ‘diocesan stipends fund’ have the same meanings as in the Pastoral Measure 1983 and ‘the appointed day’ means the day appointed under section 22(2) below for the coming into force of this section.
2 Amendment of Parsonages Measure 1938.
The Parsonages Measure 1938shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Schedule 1 to this Measure.
3 Amendment of City of London \(Guild Churches) Act 1952.
In section 12(10) of the City of London (Guild Churches) Act 1952—
(a) for the words ‘Incumbents (Disability) Measure 1945 and of the Incumbents (Discipline) Measure 1947’ there shall be substituted the words ‘Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963 and of the Incumbents (Vacation of Benefices) Measure 1977’;
(b) for the words ‘Church Commissioners’ there shall be substituted the words ‘London Diocesan Fund’;
(c) in the proviso for the words ‘Incumbents (Discipline) Measure 1947’ there shall be substituted the words ‘Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963’ and for the words ‘paragraph (iii) of section 16’ there shall be substituted the words ‘section 71(4)’.
4 Amendment of Diocesan Stipends Funds Measure 1953.
The Diocesan Stipends Funds Measure 1953shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Schedule 2 to this Measure.
5 Amendment of Church Property \(Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1960.
The Church Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1960shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Schedule 3 to this Measure.
6 Amendments of Cathedrals Measure 1963.
In section 39 of the Cathedrals Measure 1963for the words ‘Church Commissioners’ there shall be substituted the words ‘diocesan board of finance’.
7 Amendment of Repair of Benefice Buildings Measure 1972.
The Repair of Benefice Buildings Measure 1972shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Schedule 4 to this Measure.
8 Amendment of Endowments and Glebe Measure 1976.
The Endowments and Glebe Measure 1976shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Schedule 5 to this Measure.
9 Amendment of Incumbents \(Vacation of Benefices) Measure 1977.
In Schedule 2 to the Incumbents (Vacation of Benefices) Measure 1977—
(a) in paragraph 2(4) for the words ‘Church Commissioners’ there shall be substituted the words ‘Church of England Pensions Board’;
(b) in paragraph 7 for the words from ‘agreed’ to ‘and’ there shall be substituted the words ‘determined by’;
(c) in paragraph 8(1) in the definition of ‘national minimum stipend’ the words ‘Church Commissioners as the’ shall be omitted.
10 Amendment of Pastoral Measure 1983.
The Pastoral Measure 1983shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Schedule 6 to this Measure.
11 Amendment of Charities Act 1993.
In section 96(2)(b) of the Charities Act 1993after the words ‘Diocesan Board of Finance’ there shall be inserted the words ‘(or any subsidiary thereof)’.
Part II
Other provisions
12 Provisions relating to rural deans.
(1) Where a rural deanery is vacant or a rural dean is unable by reason of illness or absence to carry out any or all of his functions, the bishop of the diocese in which the rural deanery is may appoint by an instrument under his hand another person to perform any or all of the rural dean's functions for a period specified in the instrument.
(2) A power of appointment under this section may be exercised by the appointment of two or more persons and by the division among them, whether territorially or otherwise, of the function or functions to be performed.
(3) A statement in a document issued in the performance of any such function that the person by whom the document is signed or executed has been duly appointed under this section to perform that function shall be conclusive evidence of that fact.
(4) The bishop of a diocese may by order declare that the office of rural dean shall, in any deanery in that diocese, be called the office of area dean; and, accordingly, in any enactment (including this section), Canon or other instrument references to a rural dean shall be construed as including references to an area dean.
13 Amendment of Consecration of Churchyards Act 1867.
In section 1 of the Consecration of Churchyards Act 1867—
(a) for the words ‘lawfully appointed as his commissary’ there shall be substituted the words ‘appointed by him for the purposes of this section’;
(b) for the words ‘any two clergymen of the diocese’ there shall be substituted the words ‘a clergyman beneficed or licensed to serve in the diocese or by the churchwardens of the church in question’.
14 Amendment of Church Funds Investment Measure 1958.
(1) In the Church Funds Investment Measure 1958 the Scheme contained in the Schedule shall be amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph 1 after the definition of ‘Contributing Fund’ there shall be inserted the following definition—
‘‘Deposit Fund Reserve’ has the meaning ascribed thereto in paragraph 22A hereof;’.
(3) In paragraph 20(2) at the end there shall be inserted the words ‘Provided that the Central Board shall not be liable to make good any loss incurred in the course of administering the Fund in a reasonable manner in the event that depositors cannot be repaid in full’.
(4) In paragraph 21(1) the words from ‘(c)’ to ‘trust funds;’ shall be omitted.
(5) After paragraph 22 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
22A
(1) For any Deposit Fund the Central Board may keep a separate account (referred to herein as a Deposit Fund Reserve) containing such moneys as the Board may allocate thereto out of the income of the investment of the Fund, for the purpose of preventing or reducing potential losses in the Fund or of augmenting the rate of interest paid to depositors.
(2) Until the expiry of the period of five years following the coming into force of section 14(5) of the Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2000 or of such further period or periods following that period of five years as the General Synod may by resolution direct, paragraph 21 of this Scheme shall apply in relation to Deposit Fund Reserves in like manner as it applies to Deposit Funds, with the insertion at the end of sub-paragraph (1) of the words ‘(g) Upon loan to the Archbishops' Council.’.’
15 Amendment of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963.
In section 8 of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963at the end of subsection (2) there shall be inserted the words ‘with the leave of Her Majesty...
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