Emergency Legislation Measure 1944
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | measure 1944 No. 1 |
| Year | 1944 |
Emergency Legislation Measure, 1944
(8 & 9 Geo. 6.)
A MEASURE passed by the National Assembly of the Church of England.
To make further provision with respect to the present national emergency.
[21st December 1944]
1 Expiration of Clergy \(National Emergency Precautions) Measure 1939, and Regulations.
The Clergy (National Emergency Precautions) Measure, 1939, and the Clergy (National Emergency Precautions) Regulations, 1939, (hereafter in this Measure referred to as the ‘Principal Measure’ and the ‘Emergency Regulations’), instead of expiring on the dates therein mentioned, shall expire at the expiration of six months from such date as the National Assembly of the Church of England may by resolution declare to be the date on which the emergency that was the occasion of the passing of the said Measure came to an end.
2 Temporary continuance of certain directions.
(1) Where, in consequence of a church having been closed or damaged, or being for other reasons not available for the publication of banns or the solemnisation of marriages, directions authorising the publication of banns and the solemnisation of marriages in some other place of public worship have been given, either under paragraph two of the Emergency Regulations, or under section three of the Diocesan Reorganisation Committees Measure, 1941 , the directions shall, notwithstanding the expiration of the said Regulations or, as the case may be, of the order deferring the restoration of the church in question, continue in force until they are revoked by an order of the bishop.
(2) Before making any order under this section the bishop shall, if possible, consult with the rural dean of the deanery and the archdeacon of the archdeaconry concerned.
(3) An order under this section shall be in writing and a copy thereof signed by the bishop shall be filed in the diocesan registry and a copy shall be posted on, or near to, the principal door of each of the places of worship to which the order relates.
3 Power of bishop to extend leave of absence granted to incumbent.
Where at the date declared under section one of this Measure an incumbent is absent from his parish by virtue of leave of absence granted under paragraph three of the Emergency Regulations, the bishop may from time to time grant him further leave of absence.
4 Powers of E.C. and Q.A.B. under s. 3 of the Clergy \(National Emergency Precautions) Measure, 1939.
(1) Where at the date declared under section one of this Measure, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners or Queen Anne's Bounty are, under section three of the principal Measure, making a variation in the disposal of the income of any funds held or administered by them so as to accord with a varied arrangement for the cure of souls, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners or Queen Anne's Bounty as the case may be, may, after the expiration of the said Measure, continue to make the same variation, or such other variation as they may think fit, so long as the varied arrangement for the cure of souls continues.
(2) Payment of the whole, or a part, of the income of any such fund as aforesaid...
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