The Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2011
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2011/968 |
| Year | 2011 |
2011 No. 968
Ecclesiastical Law, England And Wales
The Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2011
Made 21th March 2011
Coming into force 22th March 2011
The Secretary of State, with the approval of the Treasury, makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1 of the Redundant Churches and other Religious Buildings Act 19691and now vested in him2:
In accordance with section 1(4) of that Act, a draft of this instrument was laid before and approved by a resolution of the House of Commons.
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2011 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
Period for grants to the Churches Conservation Trust
2. The period from the beginning of 1 April 2011 until the end of 31 March 2015 is specified for the purposes of section 1(1) of the Redundant Churches and other Religious Buildings Act 1969 (“the Act”).
Aggregate amount of grants
3. The aggregate amount of the grants that may be paid under section 1(1) of the Act in the period specified in article 2 shall not exceed £11,192,000.
Revocation of previous Order
4. The Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 20083is revoked.
John Penrose
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
15th March 2011
Angela Watkinson
Michael Fabricant
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
21st March 2011
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
The Churches Conservation Trust has as its object the preservation, in the interests of the nation and the Church of England, of churches and parts of churches of historic and archaeological interest or architectural quality, together with their contents, which are vested in the Trust by Part III of the Pastoral Measure 1983 ( 1983 No. 1). The Pastoral Measure 1983 was amended by the Pastoral (Amendment) Measure 1994 ( 1994 No. 1) which, amongst other things, changed the name of the Redundant Churches Fund to the Churches Conservation Trust. The Pastoral Measure 1968 ( 1968 No. 1) originally established the Redundant Churches Fund but it was repealed by the Pastoral Measure 1983, provisions of which provided for the continuation and operation of...
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