Clergy (National Emergency Precautions) Measure, 1939
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | measure 1939 No. 3 |
| Year | 1939 |
Clergy (National Emergency Precautions) Measure, 1939
(2 & 3 Geo. 6.)
A MEASURE passed by the National Assemblyof the Church of England.
To enable the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to make regulations for the more effective exercise of the cure of souls in the event of war, and to enable the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and Queen Anne's Bounty to make financial provision in respect thereof.
[28th July 1939]
1 Interpretation.
In this Measure—
The expression ‘period of emergency’ means a period during which a state of war may exist between His Majesty and any foreign power and a period of three months thereafter:
The term ‘bishop’ means the bishop of a diocese in the provinces of Canterbury and York, and in relation to the diocese of an archbishop includes an archbishop:
The expression ‘clerk in Holy Orders’ includes any bishop diocesan or other within the said provinces.
2 Power to Archbishops to make Regulations.
(1) In the event of a period of emergency it shall be lawful during such period for the Archbishops of Canterbury and York (or for either of them during a vacancy in one of the archiepiscopal sees or in the event of the incapacity of the other archbishop to act under this Measure) from time to time to make, vary and rescind such Regulations as they or he may think proper for the more effective exercise of the cure of souls within the provinces of Canterbury and York, and in particular for enabling a bishop during the period of emergency—
( a ) to give directions from time to time, after consultation, if possible, with the rural dean of the deanery concerned, as to the use or disuse of any church, chapel or other place of public worship within his diocese or for limiting the number of services to be held therein;
( b ) to grant unlimited leave of absence from his parish to any incumbent within his diocese, and
( c ) to require any clerk in Holy Orders serving in any parish or place within his diocese to serve in some other parish or place in the same diocese where the bishop, after consultation, if possible, with the archdeacons of the diocese, may be of opinion that his help is more needed, or (with the consent of the clerk and of the bishop of the other diocese concerned) in any other diocese.
(2) No clerk in Holy Orders shall be liable to any penalty or to any action or other legal proceeding, in respect of the omission of all or any public services or...
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