Cathedrals Measure 2021

28 Payments from Church Commissioners’ general fund

(1) The Church Commissioners must pay sums by way of stipend or such other emoluments as they may determine—

(a) to the dean of each cathedral, and

(b) for two full-time equivalent residentiary canons of each cathedral engaged on cathedral duties.

(2) The Chapter of a cathedral may, with the consent of the Church Commissioners, pay additional emoluments to the dean or to any residentiary canon for whom the Church Commissioners are required to make a payment under subsection (1)(b).

(3) Where a person is appointed as dean of a cathedral, or as a residentiary canon the cost of whose stipend is to be met by the Church Commissioners under subsection (1), the Church Commissioners may make a grant to that person towards removal expenses incurred by him or her.

(4) The Church Commissioners may make grants for—

(a) paying the stipend or other emoluments of any clerk in Holy Orders holding office in the cathedral, other than a dean or residentiary canon;

(b) paying the salary or other emoluments of any lay person employed by the Chapter or engaged to provide services in connection with the cathedral.

(5) The Church Commissioners may make grants to the Chapter of a cathedral for the purpose of securing the better provision of houses for clerks in Holy Orders who hold office in the cathedral.

(6) The Church Commissioners may make grants to the Chapter of a cathedral for the repair of a chancel, other than the chancel of the cathedral, which the Chapter is wholly or partly liable to repair.

(7) The Church Commissioners may make grants for the purpose of supporting cathedrals to such bodies as appear to the Church Commissioners to represent cathedrals.

(8) A grant or other payment by the Church Commissioners under this section is to be made out of their general fund; and the amount of any such grant or other payment is to be such amount as they from time to time determine.

(9) In the application of this section to each cathedral of the diocese of Leeds, subsection (1) has effect as if for “two full-time equivalent residentiary canons” there were substituted “one full-time equivalent residentiary canon”; but, in the case of each of those cathedrals, this subsection applies to that cathedral only if the Bishop of Leeds has given consent for it to apply to it.