2 Provision by Canon for participation in local ecumenical projects.U.K.
(1)It shall be lawful for the General Synod to make provision by Canon for the bishop of a diocese—
(a)to enter into an agreement, with the appropriate authority of each Church participating in a local ecumenical project established or to be established in respect of an area in his diocese, for the participation of the Church of England in that project;
(b)to make special provision as to the ministry in the area of a local ecumenical project of clerks in Holy Orders, deaconesses, lay workers and readers beneficed in or licensed to any parish wholly or partly in that area or ministering in or licensed to any cathedral church in that area.
(2)It shall be lawful for the General Synod to make provision by Canon for the bishop of a diocese in the case of an institution in the diocese in respect of which a clerk in Holy Orders is licensed under section 2 of the M1Extra-Parochial Ministry Measure 1967 [F1or the bishop or bishops who make a bishop's mission order under section 47 of the Dioceses, Pastoral and Mission Measure 2007]—
(a)to enter into an agreement, with the appropriate authority of each Church participating in a local ecumenical project established or to be established in respect of that institution [F2or in connection with the initiative endorsed by the bishop's mission order], for the participation of the Church of England in that project, and
(b)to make special provision as to the ministry in that institution [F2or in connection with the initiative endorsed by the bishop's mission order] of clerks in Holy Orders.
(3)The powers of the General Synod under subsections (1) and (2) above may be exercised only in respect of a local ecumenical project in which every other Church participating in the project is a Church to which this Measure applies.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 2(2) inserted (31.3.2008) by Dioceses, Pastoral and Mission Measure 2007 (No. 1), ss. 63(4)(a), 66(2); 2007 No. 3, Instrument made by Archbishops
F2Words in s. 2(2)(a)(b) inserted (31.3.2008) by Dioceses, Pastoral and Mission Measure 2007 (No. 1), ss. 63(4)(b), 66(2); 2007 No. 3, Instrument made by Archbishops
Marginal Citations