(1)Regulations made by the House of Bishops of the General Synod may make provision with respect to the maximum number of registrarships, whether of a province or of a diocese, which any one person may hold.
(2)Nothing in any regulation made under subsection (1) above shall be taken as prohibiting any person who at the date on which the regulation comes into force holds more than the maximum number of registrarships prescribed by the regulation from continuing to hold such offices.
(3)A person holding the office of registrar of a province or registrar of a diocese shall vacate that office on the date on which he attains the age of seventy years or, subject to subsection (4) below, such earlier age as may be prescribed by regulations made by the House of Bishops of the General Synod.
(4)No regulation made under subsection (3) above shall apply to any person who at the date on which the regulation comes into force is the holder of an office to which the regulation relates.
(5)The registrar of a province or of a diocese may resign his office by instrument in writing under his hand addressed to, and served on, the archbishop of the province or the bishop of the diocese, as the case may be, and the instrument shall specify the date, being a date not less than twelve months after the [F1 service of the instrument or such earlier date as the archbishop or bishop, as the case may be, may allow ], on which the resignation is to take effect.
(6)Subject to subsection (7) below, the appointment of a person as registrar of a province or of a diocese may be terminated by an instrument in writing under the hand of the archbishop of the province or the bishop of the diocese, as the case may be, addressed to, and served on, that person, and the instrument shall specify the date, being a date not less than twelve months after the date of service of the instrument, on which the appointment is to terminate.
(7)The power conferred on an archbishop by subsection (6) above shall be exercisable only with the consent of the other archbishop, and the power thereby conferred on the bishop of a diocese shall be exercisable only with the consent of the archbishop of the province.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 5(5) substituted (1.6.2005) by Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 (No. 3), ss. 44(3), 48(2) (with s. 47); S.I. 2005/1, Instrument made by Archbishops