Part 5Contents and effect of pastoral schemes and orders

Changes in benefices, parishes, extra-parochial places, archdeaconries and deaneries

33Archdeaconries and deaneries

A pastoral scheme—

(a)

may provide for creating, altering or dissolving an archdeaconry or deanery, and shall name any new archdeaconry or deanery created by the scheme;

(b)

shall, where necessary, designate the archdeaconry or deanery to which any parish created or altered by the scheme is to belong;

(c)

may alter the name of any archdeaconry or deanery.