Incumbents (Vacation of Benefices) Measure 1977

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Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1 substituted (1.7.2018) by Mission and Pastoral etc. (Amendment) Measure 2018 (No. 4), s. 14(3), Sch. para. 3 (with Sch. para. 4); S.I. 2018/722, art. 2(a) (with Sch. para. 3)

9 (1) The Dean of the Arches and Auditor is to be the chair, and the Vicar-General of the province of Canterbury and the Vicar-General of the province of York are to be the deputy chairs. E

(2) Where an appeal is to be held under section 12A, one of those three is to sit on and preside over the appeal.

(3) But if there is not one of them available to preside over an appeal under that section, a chancellor of a diocese nominated by the Dean of the Arches and Auditor or, in the case of the Dean's absence or illness, by the Vicar-General of the province concerned is to preside.

(4) Where an appeal is to be held under section 12A, the following persons are to be nominated in the manner described in sub-paragraph (3) to sit on the appeal—

(a) three persons from the panel appointed under paragraph 1(1) or (2) for the province in question, and

(b) one person from the panel appointed under paragraph 1(3).

(5) But a person may not sit on an appeal under section 12A if the person—

(a) was a member of the provincial tribunal which conducted the enquiry which is the subject of the appeal, or

(b) was ineligible to be appointed to that tribunal under Part 2 of this Schedule.]