Clergy (Ordination) Measure 1990

1990 No. 1

A Measure passed by the General Synod of the Church of England to amend the law relating to impediments to admission into Holy Orders.

1 Modification of provisions relating to effect of certain remarriages on admission into Holy Orders.

For section 9 of the M1Clergy (Ordination and Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1964 (certain remarriages to be impediment to ordination) there shall be substituted the following section—

9 Effect of certain remarriages on admission into Holy Orders.

1

Unless a faculty has been granted by the archbishop of the province in pursuance of a Canon made under subsection (2) of this section, a person—

a

who has remarried and, the other party to that marriage being living, has a former spouse still living, or

b

who is married to a person who has been previously married and whose former spouse is still living,

shall not be admitted into Holy Orders.

2

It shall be lawful for the General Synod to make provision by Canon for empowering the archbishop of a province, on an application made to him by the bishop of a diocese, to grant a faculty to the bishop for admitting into Holy Orders a person who otherwise could not be so admitted by reason of subsection (1) of this section.

F12 Restriction on delegation of powers of bishop.

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3 Short title and extent.

1

This Measure may be cited as the Clergy (Ordination) Measure 1990.

2

This Measure shall extend to the whole of the provinces of Canterbury and York.