4 Periodical episcopal visitations of cathedrals not obligatory. U.K.
At the end of section 6 of the M1Cathedral Measure 1963 (relationship of bishops to their cathedral churches) there shall be added the following paragraph :—
“ This section shall not be taken to require the statutes of a cathedral church to provide for periodical episcopal visitations of that church, and notwithstanding anything in any such statutes or in any rule of ecclesiastical law it shall not be obligatory for a bishop to visit the cathedral church of his diocese at regular intervals. ”
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1The text of ss. 1(6), 4, 5, and Sch. Pts. I, II is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
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