Care of Cathedrals Measure 1990 (No. 2) (repealed)

16 Rules. U.K.

(1) The Standing Committee shall appoint a committee (to be known as the Cathedrals (Rules) Committee) consisting of a chairman and four other members of whom at least one shall be a member of the administrative body of a cathedral church.

(2) The Cathedrals (Rules) Committee shall have power to make such rules as it considers necessary or desirable for giving effect to this Measure and may, in particular, make provision—

(a) as to any matter of procedure arising under this Measure;

(b) as to the manner in which proceedings before the Cathedrals Fabric Commission under section 9 of this Measure and proceedings before a Commission of Review under section 10 of this Measure are to be instituted and conducted and as to the payment of costs, fees and expenses incurred in or for the purposes of those proceedings; and

(c) for enabling evidence to be obtained of compliance with the provisions of this Measure.

(3) Any rules made under this section shall be laid before the General Synod and shall not come into force until approved by the General Synod, whether with or without amendment.

(4) Where the Standing Committee determines that the rules do not need to be debated by the General Synod then, unless—

(a) notice is given by a member of the General Synod in accordance with its Standing Orders that he wishes the rules to be debated or

(b) notice is so given by any such member that he wishes to move an amendment to the rules and at least twenty-five other members of the Synod indicate when the amendment is called that they wish the amendment to be moved,

the rules shall for the purposes of subsection (3) above be deemed to have been approved by the General Synod without amendment.

(5) The M1 Statutory Instruments Act 1946 shall apply to rules approved by the General Synod under this section as if they were statutory instruments and were made when so approved, and as if this Measure were an Act providing that any such rules shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

Marginal Citations

M1 1946 c. 36.