Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2014

Clergy Pensions Measure 1961

4 (1) The Clergy Pensions Measure 1961 is further amended as follows.

(2) In section 21, there are added at the end the following subsections—

“(14) The Board and their committees may, in accordance with the standing orders, authorise officers to carry out functions on behalf of the Board or its committees.

(15) The Chairman of the Board or any committee of the Board may, if he or she considers that their business can properly be conducted by correspondence, instruct the secretary to circulate to the Board or the committee in writing or by electronic transmission proposals requiring the approval of their members.

(16) Unless objections to the proposals are received from members of the Board or the committee in such numbers and within such period from the date of their posting or transmission (as the case may be) as may be specified in the standing orders, the proposals shall be deemed, at the expiry of that period, to have been approved by the Board or the committee with the same effect as if they had been approved at a duly convened meeting.”.

(3) In section 46(1), in the definition of “actuary”, for the words “Institution of Actuaries or of the Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland” there are substituted the words “Institute and Faculty of Actuaries”.