The Faculty Jurisdiction (Care of Places of Worship) Rules 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules are made under section 26 of the Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1991. They lay down the procedure for faculty proceedings involving buildings, objects, structures or land which are brought within the faculty jurisdiction under the Care of Places of Worship Measure 1999. Although the provisions of the Rules in general mirror those of the Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 2000(1), some of them make special provision for the special features of the 1999 Measure. Rule 3 identifies the class of person or body who may institute proceedings for a faculty. Rule 7 requires a petitioner to seek directions from the registrar regarding display of the public notice which, as a general rule, must be displayed for not less than 28 days, both inside the building and in some other place where it is readily visible to the public. Rule 16 provides that an “interested person”, who may put in an objection to a petition for a faculty, includes any person or body appearing to the chancellor to have a sufficient interest in the subject matter of the petition.

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SI 2000/2047.