The Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Statutory Instruments

2014 No. 2083

Ecclesiastical Law, England

The Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Made

4th August 2014

Laid before Parliament

6th August 2014

Coming into force

30th November 2014

In pursuance of section 2 of the Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) Measure 2009(1), the Archbishops’ Council makes the following Regulations:

Citation and coming into force

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 and shall come into force on 30th November 2014.

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2.—(1) Regulation 30 of the Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) Regulations 2009(2) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1)(b), for “section 3 of that Measure” substitute “section 6 of the Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011(3)”.

(3) For paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2) If an office designated under paragraph (1) above ceases to exist in consequence of a pastoral scheme or order and the office holder is in receipt of a stipend or other emoluments, the office holder shall be entitled to compensation under Schedule 4 to the Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011.

(2A) For that purpose, any periodical payments or lump sum payable under paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 4 to that Measure, and any entitlement in respect of a period of service deemed by paragraph 11(1)(a) of that Schedule to be a period of pensionable service for the purposes of that Measure, shall be calculated on the basis of the loss of one year’s service.”

(4) In paragraph (4)—

(a) for “section 26 of and Schedule 4 to the Pastoral Measure 1983” substitute “section 40 of and Schedule 4 to the Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011”, and

(b) for “instead of paragraph (2) above” substitute “(and paragraph (2A) above shall not)”.

(5) In paragraph (5)—

(a) for “Paragraph (2)” substitute “Paragraphs (2) and (2A)”, and

(b) for “section 26 of and Schedule 4 to the Pastoral Measure 1983” substitute “section 40 of and Schedule 4 to the Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011”.

(6) In paragraph (6), for “paragraph (2) substitute “paragraphs (2) and (2A)”.

The draft of these Regulations were approved by the General Synod of the Church of England on 11th July 2014

Dr J. Philips

Clerk to the Synod

Church House, London SW1P 3AZ

The Common Seal of the Archbishops’ Council was hereunto affixed on 4th August 2014

D. I. Theodoreson

K. P. Norris

Church House, London SW1P 3AZ

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

These Regulations amend Regulation 30 of the Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) Regulations 2009 so as to limit the service on which compensation is based where an office ceases to exist in the circumstances covered by that Regulation and which is deemed to be pensionable service to the loss of one year’s service.

(1)

2009 No. 1

(2)

SI 2009/2108. The Regulations were amended by SI 2010/2407 and SI 2010/2848.

(3)

2011 No. 3