Part IV Miscellaneous, Administrative and General

Administrative provisions

C177 Diocesan pastoral accounts.

1

The Commissioners shall hold an account for each diocese to be called the diocesan pastoral account and shall transfer thereto—

a

any moneys which are payable to the said account under any provisions of this Measure or any scheme or order made thereunder;

b

such other moneys as the bishop and the diocesan board of finance for the diocese, after consultation with the Commissioners, direct the Commissioners to accept for payment to the said account not being moneys for the application or disposal of which provision is made by or under any other enactment.

2

The diocesan board of finance shall pay to the Commissioners any moneys in the possession of the said board which are payable to the Commissioners under any provision repealed by this Measure or by the M1Pastoral Measure 1968 and those moneys shall be credited to the diocesan pastoral account of the diocese concerned.

3

Every diocesan board of finance shall as soon as practicable after the end of each financial year of the board prepare an account of the moneys paid into or out of the diocesan pastoral account during that year and shall include therein a statement of the amount by which the diocesan pastoral account was in debit or credit, as the case may be, at the beginning and end of that year.

4

Every diocesan board of finance shall send to the Commissioners annually a copy of the account prepared by the board under this section duly audited and shall lay a copy thereof before the diocesan synod.