Church Commissioners (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1975
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | measure 1975 No. 1 |
| Year | 1975 |
Church Commissioners(Miscellaneous Provisions)Measure 1975
A MEASURE passed by the General Synod of the Church of England to make provision for empowering the Church Commissioners to make payments towards the stipend and expenses of the Bishop of Sodor and Man and to make further provision with respect to the pensions of Church Estates Commissioners and their widows.
[1st August 1975]
1 Payments by Commissioners towards stipend, etc. of Bishop of Sodor and Man.
(1) The Church Commissioners may pay out of their general fund such annual sums as they think expedient to augment the stipend of the Bishop of Sodor and Man and as a contribution towards the expenses incurred by him in connection with the performance of the duties attaching to his office.
(2) Section 3 of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners (Powers) Measure 1936 (power of Church Commissioners to augment income of bishopric of Sodor and Man subject to a limit on the amount of the augmentation), and, in section 12 of that Measure, the words ‘save as regards section three’ are hereby repealed.
(3) This section shall extend to the Isle of Man.
2 Amendment of provisions as to pensions of Church Estates Commissioners and their widows.
(1) For subsection (1) of section 20 of the Church Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1960 (provisions as to pensions of Church Estates Commissioners) there shall be substituted the following subsection:—
(1) The Commissioners shall have power to grant to any First Church Estates Commissioner or Third Church Estates Commissioner who retires from service as such a Commissioner—
( a ) if he has performed not less than fifteen years pensionable service, a pension of such amount as the Commissioners may determine not exceeding two-thirds of the salary to which he was entitled under section 9 of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners (Powers) Measure 1938 immediately before retirement;
( b ) if he has performed less than fifteen years but not less than five years pensionable service, a pension of such amount as the Commissioners may determine, being an amount not exceeding the aggregate of one third of the salary to which he was so entitled and one thirtieth of that salary for each completed year of pensionable service in excess of five;...
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