Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016

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Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016

2016 No. 1

A Measure passed by the General Synod of the Church of England to make provision about safeguarding children and vulnerable adults; and to amend the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003.

[16th March 2016]

Safeguarding children and vulnerable adultsE

1Clergy: suspensionE

2Churchwardens: disqualification and suspensionE

3Parochial church council members etc: disqualification and suspensionE

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6Meaning of “child” and “vulnerable adult”E

Clergy discipline proceedingsE

7Removal of limitation period in sexual misconduct casesE

8Application to make complaint out of time: power to suspendE

9Registrar of tribunals: delegation of functionsE

10President of tribunals: power to remit to bishopE

11Provincial panels: reappointment of legally qualified personsE

Final provisionsE

12Short title, commencement and extentE

(1)This Measure may be cited as the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016.

(2)This section comes into force on the day on which this Measure is passed.

(3)The preceding provisions of this Measure come into force on such day as the Archbishops of Canterbury and York may by order jointly appoint; and different days may be appointed for different purposes.

(4)The Archbishops of Canterbury and York may by order jointly make transitional, transitory or saving provision in connection with the commencement of a provision of this Measure.

(5)The power to make an order under subsection (3) or (4) is exercisable by statutory instrument; and the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 applies as if the order had been made by a Minister of the Crown and as if this Measure were an Act of Parliament.

(6)This Measure extends to the whole of the provinces of Canterbury and York, except the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man (but see subsections (7) and (8)).

(7)This Measure may be applied to the Channel Islands, or either of them, in accordance with the Channel Islands (Church Legislation) Measures 1931 and 1957.

(8)If an Act of Tynwald or an instrument made under an Act of Tynwald so provides, this Measure extends to the Isle of Man subject to such exceptions, adaptations or modifications as are specified.