Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 402
ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND
The Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2000
Made
14th February 2000
Coming into force
1st April 2000
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(1) and (2) of the Redundant Churches and other Religious Buildings Act 1969( 1 ) and now vested in him( 2 ) and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order in the terms of a draft approved by resolution of the House of Commons:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2000( 3 ) and shall come into force on 1st April 2000.
Period for grants to the Churches Conservation Trust
2. The period beginning on 1st April 2000 and expiring on 31st March 2003 is hereby specified for the purposes of section 1(1) of the Redundant Churches and other Religious Buildings Act 1969(“the Act”).
Aggregate amount of grants
3. The aggregate amount of the grants that may be paid under section 1(1) of the Act in the period specified in article 2 of this Order shall not exceed £8,829,000.
Chris Smith
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
10th February 2000
We approve,
Bob Ainsworth
Greg Pope
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
14th February 2000
S.I. 1970/1681 .
The Churches Conservation Trust was formerly called the Redundant Churches Fund. The name of the body was changed by section 13 of the Pastoral (Amendment) Measure 1994 (1994 No. 1) .