Overseas and Other Clergy (Ministry and Ordination) Measure 1967
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | measure 1967 No. 3 |
| Year | 1967 |
Overseas and Other Clergy (Ministry and Ordination) Measure 1967
A MEASURE passed by the National Assembly of the Church of England to make better provision for permitting overseas clergymen and certain other clergymen to exercise their ministry in the provinces of Canterbury and York, for enabling overseas bishops and certain other bishops to exercise episcopal functions in the said provinces, for the ordination of clergymen for ministry overseas, and for matters connected with the matters aforesaid.
[14th July 1967]
1 Permission for overseas clergymen to officiate.
(1) If any overseas clergyman desires to officiate as priest or deacon in the province of Canterbury or York, he may apply to the Archbishop of the province in which he desires to officiate for written permission to do so.
(2) The Archbishop may, on any such application, grant the permission either without limitation of time or, if he thinks fit, for a limited period specified in the permission, and thereupon, subject to any such limitation of period, the overseas clergyman shall possess all such rights and advantages and be subject to all such duties and liabilities as he would have possessed and been subject to if he had been ordained by the bishop of a diocese in the province of Canterbury or York (otherwise than under section 5 of this Measure).
(3) Where a permission is granted for a limited period, a further permission, either temporary or permanent, may be granted by the Archbishop of the same province.
(4) Any permission granted under this section shall be registered in the registry of the province.
(5) An application for a permission under this section shall be made on a form approved by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.
(6) It shall be an offence against the laws ecclesiastical, for which proceedings may be taken under the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963 , for any overseas clergyman to officiate as priest or deacon in the province of Canterbury or York otherwise than in accordance with a permission granted under this section, and for any clergyman knowingly to allow such an offence to be committed in any church in his charge.
(7) Nothing in this section shall prevent an overseas clergyman who is a deacon from being ordained priest by the bishop of a diocese in the province of Canterbury or York (otherwise than under section 5 of this Measure), and the last foregoing subsection shall not apply in any such case.
2 Dispensing with oath of allegiance on admission of overseas clergymen.
Where any overseas clergyman to whom permission has been granted under section 1 of this Measure is not a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, and he is to be admitted to a benefice or other office to which section 5 of the Clerical Subscription Act 1865applies, the bishop by whom he is to be admitted may dispense with the taking of the oath of allegiance.
3 Application to clergymen episcopally ordained in...
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