Statutory Instruments
2011 No. 968
Ecclesiastical Law, England And Wales
The Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2011
Made
21st March 2011
Coming into force
22nd March 2011
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 2011 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 from the beginning of 1 April 2011 until the end of 31 March 2015 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 £11,192,000.
Revocation of previous Order
4.The Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2008( 3 ) is revoked.
John Penrose
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
15th March 2011
We approve,
Angela Watkinson
Michael Fabricant
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
21st March 2011
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.