I119Provisions relating to Christ Church, Oxford

For section 2(3) of the Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1995 (No. 2) there is substituted the following subsection—

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Notwithstanding sections 5 and 6 of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840, which annexed 2 canonries in the chapter of the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford to, respectively, the Lady Margaret's professorship of divinity and the regius professorship of ecclesiastical history, those professorships may be held either by residentiary canons in the chapter or by lay canons appointed pursuant to subsection (1).