Parties and procedure in faculty cases

9 Archdeacon and non-resident electors to be deemed to have an interest in faculty proceedings.

1

For the purposes of any proceedings for obtaining a faculty the archdeacon of the archdeaconry in which the parish concerned is situate shall be deemed to have an interest as such, and any person whose name is entered on the electoral roll of the parish concerned but who does not reside therein shall be deemed to have an interest as though he were a parishioner of that parish.

2

If the archdeaconry be vacant or the archdeacon be incapacitated by absence or illness from exercising or fulfilling the rights or duties conferred or imposed upon him by this Measure or is in the opinion of the bishop for any other reason unable or unwilling to act, such other person as the bishop shall appoint in that behalf in writing shall have power to act in the place of the archdeacon for the purposes of this Measure in any particular case.

3

If the archdeacon or such other person as may be appointed under this section intervenes in any such proceeding all costs properly incurred by him or which he shall be ordered by the court to pay shall be paid by the board of finance of the diocese in which the parish concerned is situate:

Provided that a board shall not be liable for any sum by virtue of this section unless such intervention is approved by the board in writing and, if such approval is duly given, any order in such proceeding that the costs of the archdeacon or other appointed person be paid by any other party may be enforced by the board in the name of the archdeacon or other appointed person.