Part II Offences cognisable under the Measure and Provisions as to Persons chargeable therewith
17 Persons against whom proceedings may be instituted.
Proceedings under this Measure may be instituted against an archbishop, any diocesan bishop or any suffragan bishop commissioned by a diocesan bishop or any other bishop or a priest or deacon who, when the offence was alleged to have been committed or when the proceedings are instituted, held or holds preferment in any diocese or resided or resides therein as the case may be.