Church of England (Ecumenical Relations) Measure 1988

2 [F1 Provision by Canon for participation in local ecumenical co-operative schemes] 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 [F2 local ecumenical co-operative scheme] established or to be established in respect of an area in his diocese, for the participation of the Church of England in [F3 that scheme ];

(b) to make special provision as to the ministry in the area of a [F2 local ecumenical co-operative scheme] 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 M1 Extra-Parochial Ministry Measure 1967 [F4 or the bishop or bishops who make a bishop's mission order under [F5 section 80 of the Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011 ]] —

(a) to enter into an agreement, with the appropriate authority of each Church participating in a [F2 local ecumenical co-operative scheme] established or to be established in respect of that institution [F6 or in connection with the initiative endorsed by the bishop's mission order], for the participation of the Church of England in [F3 that scheme], and

(b) to make special provision as to the ministry in that institution [F6 or 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 [F2 local ecumenical co-operative scheme] in which every other Church participating in [F7 the scheme ] is a Church to which this Measure applies.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 2 title substituted (1.2.2019) by Ecumenical Relations Measure 2018 (No. 6), ss. 1(2), 4(3); S.I. 2019/99, art. 2

F2 Words in s. 2 substituted (1.2.2019) by Ecumenical Relations Measure 2018 (No. 6), ss. 1(2)(a), 4(3); S.I. 2019/99, art. 2

F3 Words in s. 2 substituted (1.2.2019) by Ecumenical Relations Measure 2018 (No. 6), ss. 1(2)(b), 4(3); S.I. 2019/99, art. 2

F4 Words 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

F5 Words in s. 2(2) substituted (1.2.2019) by Ecumenical Relations Measure 2018 (No. 6), ss. 1(2)(d), 4(3); S.I. 2019/99, art. 2

F6 Words 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

F7 Words in s. 2 substituted (1.2.2019) by Ecumenical Relations Measure 2018 (No. 6), ss. 1(2)(c), 4(3); S.I. 2019/99, art. 2

Marginal Citations

M1 1967 No. 2.