There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Cathedrals Measure 2021, Section 14A.
(1)A person who has been admitted to the office of reader or as a lay worker for at least six years and is licensed to exercise office or serve as such is capable of being appointed as a residentiary canon of a cathedral but only if, and in so far as, the constitution so provides.
(2)A reference in this or any other Measure to a lay residentiary canon of a cathedral is a reference to a reader or lay worker appointed under provision included in the constitution by virtue of this section.
(3)This section and any provision included in the constitution by virtue of it have effect in spite of—
(a)section 10 of the Act of Uniformity 1662 (which provides that only an episcopally ordained priest can be admitted to an ecclesiastical promotion or dignity), and
(b)section 27 of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840 (which requires a person to have been in holy orders for at least six years to be capable of appointment to a residentiary canonry).]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 14A inserted (coming into force in accordance with s. 22(3) of the amending Measure) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2024 (No. 1), s. 7(1) (with Sch. 1 para. 1(1))
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