Statutory Instruments
2003 No. 829
ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND
The Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2003
Made
17 March 2003
Coming into force
1 April 2003
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 her ( 2 ), 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 2003 and shall come into force on 1st April 2003.
Period for grants to the Churches Conservation Trust
2. The period beginning on 1st April 2003 and expiring on 31st March 2006 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 £9,000,000.
Tessa Jowell
Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport
5 th March 2003
We approve,
John Heppell
Nick Ainger
Two of the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty’s Treasury
17 th March 2003
1969 c. 22 . Section 1(1) has effect subject to section 13 of the Pastoral (Amendment) Measure 1994 (1994 No. 1) . Section 13(1) changed the name of the Redundant Churches Fund to the Churches Conservation Trust. The effect of section 13(2) is to require the reference to the Redundant Churches Fund in section 1(1) of the Redundant Churches and other Religious Buildings 1969 to be construed as a reference to the Churches Conservation Trust.