The National Ministry Register (Clergy) Regulations 2020
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2020/1538 |
| Year | 2020 |
2020 No. 1538
Ecclesiastical Law, England
The National Ministry Register (Clergy) Regulations 2020
Made 11th December 2020
Laid before Parliament 17th December 2020
Coming into force 1st May 2021
The Archbishops’ Council, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 20201, makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Ministry Register (Clergy) Regulations 2020.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 1st May 2021.
(3) In these Regulations, “working day” means a day which is not a Saturday or Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday in England under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 19712.
(4) A requirement in these Regulations to provide information (however it is expressed) is to be read as a requirement to do so in writing.
Registration information
2.—(1) In these Regulations, the “registration information”, in relation to a clerk in Holy Orders, is—
(a)
(a) the clerk’s full name,
(b)
(b) the postal address, and the email address, at which the clerk wishes to be contacted for purposes relating to these Regulations,
(c)
(c) the form of authority to exercise ministry which the clerk has,
(d)
(d) the area, place or activity to which the authority relates, and
(e)
(e) if the authority is subject to a limitation of time, the date on which the authority comes to an end or details of the contingency on the occurrence of which it comes to an end.
(2) In the case of an assistant curate in respect of whom an instrument under section 99 of the Mission and Pastoral Measure 20113is in force, the “registration information” also includes the terms in which the office of the assistant curate is described in the direction specified in the instrument.
(3) In a case where a clerk in Holy Orders who has authority to exercise ministry is also appointed to the office of rural dean, the “registration information” also includes the date of that appointment.
(4) In its application to the diocese of Sodor and Man, this regulation has effect as if the reference in paragraph (2) to section 99 of the Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011 were a reference to section 61 of the Dioceses, Pastoral and Mission Measure 20074.
Registration officer
3.—(1) This regulation applies for the purpose of determining who under these Regulations is the registration officer for a clerk in Holy Orders.
(2) For an archbishop, the registration officer is the other archbishop.
(3) For the bishop of a diocese, the registration officer is the archbishop of the province in which the diocese is situated.
(4) For any other clerk in Holy Orders, the registration officer is—
(a)
(a) in relation to the clerk’s authority to exercise ministry in a diocese or an area of a diocese, in the cathedral of a diocese, in a private chapel in a diocese or at any institution or other place in a diocese (other than a Royal Peculiar), the bishop of the diocese;
(b)
(b) in relation to the clerk’s authority to exercise ministry in a Royal Peculiar (whether as the dean or in some other capacity), the dean of that Royal Peculiar;
(c)
(c) in relation to the clerk’s authority to exercise ministry as a chaplain in Her Majesty’s Forces, the Bishop to the Forces.
(5) Paragraph (4)(a) does not apply to an authority to exercise ministry which takes the form of a licence to preach granted by the University of Oxford or the University of Cambridge.
(6) In the case of a Chapel Royal, the references in this Regulation to the dean are references to the Dean of the Chapels Royal.
(7) Where there is a vacancy in the see of an archbishop or diocesan bishop or in the office of the dean of a Royal Peculiar or a registration officer is unable to exercise functions as such, and the functions of registration officer have not already been delegated, the registration officer is—
(a)
(a) in the case of an archbishop, the senior bishop of the province (with seniority for these purposes being determined in accordance with section 10(4) of the Bishops (Retirement) Measure 19865);
(b)
(b) in the case of a diocesan bishop, the senior suffragan bishop of the diocese or, if there is no suffragan bishop, the senior archdeacon (with seniority for these purposes being determined for each office according to the length of service in that office in that diocese);
(c)
(c) in the case of the dean of a Royal Peculiar, the senior clerk in that Royal Peculiar (with seniority for these purposes being determined according to the...
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