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The Clergy Discipline (Amendment) Rules 2024

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Contents: 4 provisions
  1. Title and introductory text
  2. 1 Citation and commencement
  3. 2 The Archbishops’ list
  4. 3 Definition of “registrar” to include deputy etc.

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4 provisions

Title and introductory text

2024 No. 387 Ecclesiastical Law, England The Clergy Discipline (Amendment) Rules 2024 Made (approved by General Synod) 23rd February 2024 Laid before Parliament 21st March 2024 Coming into force in accordance with rule 1(2) The Rule Committee makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 83 and 94 of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018:

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1 Citation and commencement

(1) These Rules may be cited as the Clergy Discipline (Amendment) Rules 2024. (2) These Rules come into force on the day after that on which they are laid before Parliament.

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2 The Archbishops’ list

In Rule 74 of the Clergy Discipline Rules 2005 (access to the Archbishops’ list), in paragraph (3), after “diocesan” insert “or suffragan”.

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3 Definition of “registrar” to include deputy etc.

(1) Rule 106 of the Clergy Discipline Rules 2005 (interpretation) is amended as follows. (2) The existing text becomes paragraph (1). (3) In that paragraph, in the definition of “provincial registrar” after “the other province” insert “or, in the case of either of the provincial registrars, a person appointed under section 29(1) or (5) of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018”. (4) In that paragraph, in the definition of “registrar”, after “the diocesan registrar” insert “or a person appointed under section 31(1) or (5) of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018”. (5) In that paragraph, in the definition of “bishop”, omit “, area”. (6) After that paragraph insert— (2) A person appointed under section 29(1) or 31(1) of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018 is entitled to exercise a function under these Rules of a provincial registrar or diocesan registrar whether or not the person is authorised to exercise that function under the instrument of appointment.

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