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Deacons (Ordination of Women) Measure 1986 Provision for ordination of women as deacons. 1 1 It shall be lawful for the General Synod to make provision by Canon for enabling a woman to be ordained to the office of deacon if she otherwise satisfies the requirements of Canon Law as to the persons who may be ordained as deacons. 2 In the case of a deaconess who is licensed or holds a bishop’s permission to officiate, a Canon made in pursuance of subsection (1) above may make provision for enabling the deaconess to be ordained to the office of deacon notwithstanding— a that she has not after applying to be so ordained been further examined concerning her knowledge of holy scripture or of the doctrine, discipline and worship of the Church of England, or b that she has not exhibited to the bishop of the diocese any certificate or other document which is required to be so exhibited by every person who is to be made a deacon. 3 In section 1(1) of the Clergy (Ordination and Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1964 there shall be inserted at the beginning the words “Subject to the provisions of section 1(2) of the Deacons (Ordination of Women) Measure 1986”. 4 Nothing in this Measure shall make it lawful for a woman to be ordained to the office of priest. Provisions as to the order of deaconesses. 2 1 It shall be lawful for the General Synod to provide by Canon that no woman shall be admitted to the order of deaconesses unless before the date on which this Measure comes into force she has been accepted for training for admission to that order. 2 Nothing in this Measure shall affect the rights of a deaconess who does not become a deacon. Provisions as to pensions etc. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interpretation. 4 In any Canon, order, rule or regulation relating to deacons, words importing the masculine gender include the feminine, unless the contrary intention appears. Short title, commencement and extent. 5 1 This Measure may be cited as the Deacons (Ordination of Women) Measure 1986. 2 This Measure shall come into force on such day as the Archbishops of Canterbury and York may jointly appoint. 3 This Measure shall extend to the provinces of Canterbury and York except that it shall only extend to the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands in accordance with the following provisions of this section. 4 Sections 1, 2, 4 and 5 shall extend to the Isle of Man and section 3 may by or under Act of Tynwald be extended to the Isle of Man with such exceptions, adaptations and modifications as may be specified in such Act or instrument thereunder. 5 This Measure may be applied to the Channel Islands as defined in the Channel Islands (Church Legislation) Measures 1931 and 1957, or either of them, in accordance with those Measures.
Pensions (Pre-consolidation) Measure 2018 (repealed) Pre-consolidation amendments 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short title, commencement, extent and application 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Planning (Compensation, etc. ) Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 Abolition of compensation for planning decisions restricting new development 1 Parts I and II of the Land Development Values (Compensation) Act (Northern Ireland) 1965 (c. 23) (in this Act referred to as the 1965 Act) (compensation for planning decisions restricting new development where land has a balance of development value) shall cease to have effect. Abolition of compensation for planning decisions restricting development other than new development 2 Section 29 of the 1965 Act (compensation for planning decisions restricting development other than new development) shall cease to have effect. Abolition of compensation for refusal of consent to alteration etc. of listed building 3 Article 64 of the Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 ( NI 17) (in this Act referred to as the 1972 Order) (compensation for refusal of consent to alteration, etc. of listed building) shall cease to have effect. Application of Act 4 This Act ... shall have effect, or be treated as having had effect, in any case where the application for planning permission referred to in section 14(1) of the 1965 Act or in section 29(1) of the 1965 Act or, as the case may be, the application for listed building consent referred to in Article 64 of the 1972 Order is made on or after 23rd October 2000. Amendment of the Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendments, savings and repeals 6 1 The statutory provisions specified in Schedule 1 shall have effect subject to the amendments set out in that Schedule. 2 Without prejudice to section 28 of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (c. 33), the savings in Schedule 2 shall have effect. 3 The statutory provisions set out in Schedule 3 are hereby repealed to the extent specified in column 2 of that Schedule. Short title 7 This Act may be cited as the Planning (Compensation, etc.) Act (Northern Ireland) 2001.
Deaconesses and Lay Workers (Pensions) Measure 1980 (repealed) Power of Church Commissioners to make payments for provision, etc. of pension benefits for deaconesses and lay workers. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short title and extent. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers Measure 1976 (repealed) Retiring age for judges of ecclesiastical courts. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Number of chancellorships to be held by one person may be limited. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Office of registrar of a province. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Office of registrar of a diocese. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Provisions with respect to number of registrarships to be held by one person, vacation of office, etc. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Transitional provisions supplementary to ss.3 to 5. 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abolition of offices of archdeacon’s official principal and archdeacon’s registrar. 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Provisions with respect to regulations under s. 5. 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Citation, commencement and extent. 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Church Commissioners (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1975 Payments by Commissioners towards stipend, etc. of Bishop of Sodor and Man. 1 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 This section shall extend to the Isle of Man. Amendment of provisions as to pensions of Church Estates Commissionersand their widows. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short title. 3 This Measure may be cited as the Church Commissioners (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1975.
Cathedrals Measure 1976 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Revision of instrument creating additional canonry at Oxford. 7 For subsection (6) of section 42 of the Cathedrals Measure1963 (which provides for the creation by an instrument made by the Cathedrals Commission of an additional canonry for the cathedral church of Christ in Oxford and, in subsection (6), for the revision of such instrument by a Commission appointed by the Standing Cimmittee of the General Synod) there shall be substituted the following subsection:— 6 Where an application in that behalf is made by the bishop and the dean and canons of the cathedral church of Christ in Oxford to the Cathedral Statutes Commission appointed under the Cathedrals Measure 1976, the said Commission shall consider the revision of any instrument for the time being in force under this section and may, with the consent of the bishop, the dean and canons of the said cathedral church and the Church Commissioners, make an instrument under this section which may vary or revoke any instrument previously made thereunder and for the time being in force. Construction, repeals and savings. 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Extent. 9 This Measure shall apply to every cathedral church in England existing at the passing of this Measure except the cathedral church of Christ in Oxford, and section 7 of this Measure shall apply to that cathedral church. Citation. 10 This Measure may be cited as the Cathedrals Measure 1976 and the Cathedrals Measure 1963 and this Measure may be cited together as the Cathedrals Measures 1963 and 1976.
Deaconesses and Lay Ministry Measure 1972 Provision for extending the ministry of deaconesses, licensed lay workers, readers and others. 1 1 It shall be lawful for the General Synod to provide by Canon for the authorisation by the bishop of the diocese of deaconesses, licensed lay workers, readers, and other lay persons having such qualifications as may be prescribed by Canon, to perform any of the following duties at the invitation of the minister of a parish or an extra-parochial minister:— a to church women; b in the absence of the minister, to baptise; c with the goodwill of the persons responsible, to bury the dead or read the burial service before, at or after a cremation. 2 A Canon made in pursuance of the preceding subsection may provide for substituting, when a cure is vacant, the invitation of the rural dean for the invitation of the minister of the parish or parishes concerned. 3 The power to provide by Canon for the matters aforesaid shall be exerciseable notwithstanding any rubric or direction in the Book of Common Prayer or any rule of ecclesiastical law. 4 References in any enactment or Measure relating to burial or cremation to a clerk or minister in Holy Orders, or to qualified persons authorised by an incumbent or minister, or to a minister of religion, shall be construed as including references to a person authorised in pursuance of subsection (1) of this section to perform the duties specified in paragraph ( c ) thereof, but not so as to enable any such person to perform those duties otherwise than in accordance with the conditions prescribed by Canon. 5 In this section the expression “ extra-parochial minister ” means a minister licensed under section 2 of the Extra-Parochial Ministry Measure 1967 to perform at any of the institutions therein mentioned all or any of the duties specified in subsection (1) of this section. Provision with respect to licensing for fixed term. 1A Without prejudice to section 7(1) of the Church of England (Legal Aid and Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1988, it shall be lawful for the General Synod to provide by Canon for empowering the bishop of a diocese, in the case of a benefice in his diocese in respect of which a team ministry is established,— a to grant a licence to any of the persons mentioned in subsection (1) of section 1 above to serve in the area of the benefice for such term of years as may be specified in the licence; and b in the case of any such person who is not subject to Common Tenure, to revoke such a licence summarily and without further process before the expiration of the term so specified for such cause and subject to such conditions as the Canon may provide. Short title and extent. 2 1 This Measure may be cited as the Deaconesses and Lay Ministry Measure 1972. 2 This Measure shall extend to the whole of he Provinces of Canterbury and York except the Channel Islands: Provided that this Measure may be applied to the Channel Islands as defined in the Channel Islands (Church Legislation) Measures 1931 and 1957, or either of them, in accordance with those Measures.
Clergy Pensions (Amendment) Measure 1972 (repealed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Pensions for widows. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Minor Amendments. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Power of General Synod to make further provision by regulations for clergy pensions. 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Construction, interpretation and citation. 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Synodical Government (Amendment) Measure 1974 Provision for amendment of Constitutions of the Convocations. 1 1 It shall be lawful for the General Synod to make a Canon amending the Constitutions of the Upper Houses of the Convocations of Canterbury and York for the purpose of enabling suffragan bishops to be members of those Houses and, accordingly, of the House of Bishops of the General Synod; and the Canon shall make provision with respect to the number of such bishops who are to be elected to the Upper House of each Convocation and with respect to the method of their election. 2 Where the General Synod makes a Canon for the purpose mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, it shall also amend the Canons relating to the representation of the clergy in the Lower Houses of the said Convocations for the purpose of excluding from the persons qualified or entitled to be members of the Lower House of each Convocation, and from the persons entitled to elect or choose a member or members of such House, the persons who by virtue of the first-mentioned Canon are qualified to be members of the Upper House of that Convocation. Amendment of Article 8 of Constitution of General Synod in itsapplication to schemes. 2 1 In Article 8(1) of the Constitution of the General Synod of the Church of England set out in Schedule 2 to the Synodical Government Measure 1969, which Article lays down certain requirements for the final approval by the General Synod of a scheme for a constitutional union between the Church of England and another Christian body, after the word “body” there shall be inserted the words “being a body a substantial number of whose members reside in Great Britain”. 2 After paragraph (1) of the said Article 8 there shall be inserted thefollowing paragraph:— 1A If the Archbishops consider that this Article should apply to a schemewhich affects the Church of England and another Christian body but does not fall within paragraph (1) of this Article, they may direct that this Article shall apply to that scheme, and where such a direction is given this Article shall apply accordingly. 3 The paragraph inserted in Article 8 by Section 1(1) of the Synodical Government (Special Majorities) Measure 1971 and numbered(1A) shall be re-numbered (1B). Manner of voting on a division 3 At the end of Article 5 of the said Constitution, which provides forthe manner of voting in the Synod, there shall be inserted thefollowing paragraph:— 4 Where a vote is to be taken on a division by Houses, it may be take neither by an actual division or in such other manner as Standing Orders may provide. Citation. 4 This Measure may be cited as the Synodical Government (Amendment) Measure 1974 and the Synodical Government Measure 1969, the Synodical Government (Special Majorities) Measure 1971 and this Measure may be cited together as the Synodical Government Measures 1969 to 1974.
ADMISSION TO HOLY COMMUNION MEASURE 1972 ( No. 1) (repealed) Admission to Holy Communion. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short title. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Clergy Pension (Amendment) Measure 1982 (repealed) Extension of powers of Church Commissioners to make payments to the Pensions Board. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of powers of Pensions Board relating to provision of residences. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Provision with respect to membership of pensions schemes for church workers. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Investment powers of Pensions Board. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Investment of moneys comprised in certain funds. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Construction, interpretation and citation. 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Pensions Measure 1997 General provisions as to pension schemes Past service and funded schemes. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Funded Scheme Rules. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Funded scheme Establishment of pensions fund. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contributions to pensions fund. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Church Commissioners Liability of Commissioners. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Transitional grants by Commissioners for funded scheme. 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Application of capital. 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pensions Board Constitution of Board. 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miscellaneous Interpretation. 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendments and repeals. 10 1 The enactments specified in Schedule 1 to this Measure shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in that Schedule, being minor amendments or amendments consequential on the preceding provisions of this Measure. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Citation, commencement and extent. 11 1 This Measure may be cited as the Pensions Measure 1997 and this Measure may be cited with the Church of England (Pensions) Measures 1961 to 1988 as the Church of England (Pensions) Measures 1961 to 1997. 2 This Measure shall come into force on such day as the Archbishops of Canterbury and York may jointly appoint. 3 This Measure shall extend to the whole of the provinces of Canterbury and York except the Channel Islands, but the provisions thereof may be applied to the Channel Islands as defined in the Channel Islands (Church Legislation) Measures 1931 and 1957, or either of them, in accordance with those Measures.
Clergy (Ordination) Measure 1990 Modification of provisions relating to effect of certain remarriages on admission into Holy Orders. 1 For section 9 of the Clergy (Ordination and Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1964 (certain remarriages to be impediment to ordination) there shall be substituted the following section— Effect of certain remarriages on admission into Holy Orders. 9 1 Unless a faculty has been granted by the archbishop of the province in pursuance of a Canon made under subsection (2) of this section, a person— a who has remarried and, the other party to that marriage being living, has a former spouse still living, or b who is married to a person who has been previously married and whose former spouse is still living, shall not be admitted into Holy Orders. 2 It shall be lawful for the General Synod to make provision by Canon for empowering the archbishop of a province, on an application made to him by the bishop of a diocese, to grant a faculty to the bishop for admitting into Holy Orders a person who otherwise could not be so admitted by reason of subsection (1) of this section. . Restriction on delegation of powers of bishop. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short title and extent. 3 1 This Measure may be cited as the Clergy (Ordination) Measure 1990. 2 This Measure shall extend to the whole of the provinces of Canterbury and York.
PRAYER BOOK (VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE) MEASURE 1965 ( No. 4) Permissive use of other versions of Bible in Book of Common Prayer. 1 1 Wherever in the Book of Common Prayer a portion of Scripture is set out and appointed to be read, said or sung, the corresponding portion contained in any version of the Bible or part of the Bible for the time being authorised for the purpose by the Convocations of Canterbury and York with the concurrence of the House of Laity may be used at the discretion of the minister in place of that set out in the Book of Common Prayer: Provided that a version of the Bible or part of the Bible so authorised shall not be used in any cathedral which is a parish church or in any church in a parish without the agreement of the parochial church council of the parish or in any guild church without the agreement of the guild church council or, in the case of services known as Occasional Offices, if any of the persons concerned objects beforehand to its use. 2 An authorisation under this section may be for a limited period or subject to such other limitations as the Convocations of Canterbury and York may with the concurrence of the House of Laity determine, and may at any time be amended or revoked by the said Convocations with such concurrence. 3 The Revised Psalter approved with a view to legislation for permissive use by the Convocations of Canterbury and York in October 1963 shall be deemed to have been authorised under subsection (1) of this section, and accordingly may be used under that subsection as from the passing of this Measure. 4 In this section “ the Book of Common Prayer ” means the book annexed to the Act of Uniformity 1662 and entitled “The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests and Deacons” as altered by any enactment passed before the passing of this Measure. Short title and extent. 2 1 This Measure may be cited as the Prayer Book (Versions of the Bible) Measure 1965. 2 This Measure shall extend to the whole of the Provinces of Canterbury and York except the Channel Islands: Provided that this Measure may be applied to the Channel Islands, as defined in the Channel Islands (Church Legislation) Measures 1931 and 1957 or either of them in accordance with those Measures.