Statutory Instruments
2008 No. 842
Ecclesiastical Law, England And Wales
The Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2008
Made
19th March 2008
Coming into force
20th March 2008
The Secretary of State, with the approval of the Treasury, makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1 of the Redundant Churches and other Religious Buildings Act 1969( 1 ) and now vested in him( 2 ):
In accordance with section 1(4) of that Act, a draft of this instrument was laid before and approved by a resolution of the House of Commons.
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2008 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
Period for grants to the Churches Conservation Trust
2. The period beginning on 1st April 2008 and expiring on 31st March 2011 is 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 shall not exceed £9,485,418.
Revocation of previous Order
4.The Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2006( 3 ) is revoked.
Margaret Hodge
Minister of State
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
19th March 2008
We approve,
Alan Campbell
Frank Roy
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
19th March 2008
1969 c.22 . Section 1(1) has effect subject to section 13 of the Pastoral (Amendment) Measure 1994 ( 1994 No. 1 ). Section 13(1) of that measure 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 Act 1969 to be construed as a reference to the Churches Conservation Trust.