Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 1992

Objections to Petition

15.—(1) Any interested person who wishes to object to a proposed faculty being granted shall at any time during the period of fourteen days citation required by rule 5(4) or such longer period as may be directed under rule 5(5)(d) or within seven days after the expiry of either of the said periods send to the registry and to the petitioners a written notice of objection containing the information required by Form No 3 in Appendix B and he shall thereupon be treated as a party opponent for all purposes including any order for costs which may be made by the chancellor pursuant to section 60 of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963.

(2) In this rule “interested person”, in relation to a petition for a faculty, means—

(a) any person who is resident in the ecclesiastical parish concerned and any person whose name is entered on the church electoral roll of the ecclesiasical parish concerned but who does not reside therein;

(b) the archdeacon of the archdeaconry in which the parish concerned is situated;

(c) the parochial church council;

(d) the local planning authority for the area in which the church or place of worship is situated;

(e) any national amenity society;

(f) any other body designated by the chancellor for the purpose of the petition; and

(g) any other person or body appearing to the chancellor to have a lawful interest in the subject matter of the petition.

(3) Where any interested person has given notice of objection, the registrar shall direct him to lodge at the registry written Particulars of Objection setting out in detail the grounds of his objection on Form No 4 in Appendix B and shall require him to serve a copy of his Particulars of Objection on the petitioners not more than twenty-one days from the date of the registrar’s direction at the address for service given by the petitioners in the general citation in Form No 3 or such other address as the registrar may direct.