Citation and commencement

1. —(1) These Rules may be cited as the Clergy Discipline (Amendment) Rules 2024.

(2) These Rules come into force on the day after that on which they are laid before Parliament.

The Archbishops’ list

2. In Rule 74 of the Clergy Discipline Rules 2005( 2 ) (access to the Archbishops’ list), in paragraph (3), after “diocesan” insert “or suffragan” .

Definition of “registrar” to include deputy etc.

3. —(1) Rule 106 of the Clergy Discipline Rules 2005 (interpretation) is amended as follows.

(2) The existing text becomes paragraph (1).

(3) In that paragraph, in the definition of “provincial registrar” after “the other province” insert “or, in the case of either of the provincial registrars, a person appointed under section 29(1) or (5) of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018” .

(4) In that paragraph, in the definition of “registrar”, after “the diocesan registrar” insert “or a person appointed under section 31(1) or (5) of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018” .

(5) In that paragraph, in the definition of “bishop”, omit “, area”.

(6) After that paragraph insert—

“ (2) A person appointed under section 29(1) or 31(1) of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018 is entitled to exercise a function under these Rules of a provincial registrar or diocesan registrar whether or not the person is authorised to exercise that function under the instrument of appointment. ”