{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-commissioners-measure-1947/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-commissioners-measure-1947/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/Geo6/10-11/2",
  "legislation_title": "Church Commissioners Measure 1947",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-commissioners-measure-1947",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Procedure.",
  "text": "(1) The provision of the Fourth Schedule to this Measure shall have effect with regard to the meetings and procedure of the Commissioners and of the Board and of any committee constituted by or under this Measure.\n(1A) A majority of the members of the Board, and a majority of the members of each committee constituted by or under this Measure, must be members of the Church of England.\n(2) Subject as aforesaid and to any other provisions of this Measure—\n(a) the Commissioners may regulate their own procedure and may from time to time at any general meeting make, vary and revoke Standing Orders for the purpose;\n(b) the Board may from time to time make, vary and revoke Standing Orders for regulating the procedure of the Board or of any Committee of the Board (but not a sub-committee established by a committee of the Board) and subject to any such Standing Orders the Board and any such committee may regulate their own procedure;\n(c) the Assets Committee and the Audit and Risk Committee may regulate their own procedure and may from time to time make, vary and revoke Standing Orders for the purpose ;\n(d) a committee constituted by or under this Measure which establishes a sub-committee may from time to time make, vary and revoke Standing Orders for regulating the procedure of the sub-committee and subject to any such Standing Orders the sub-committee may regulate its own procedure.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 7(1A) inserted (28.7.2021) by The Legislative Reform (Church Commissioners) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/842), arts. 1(2), 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(2)(b) inserted (25.1.2024) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2024 (No. 1), ss. 18(3)(a), 22(2)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(2) substituted (1.1.1999) by 1998 No. 1, s. 7(1), Sch. 4 para. 5; Instrument dated 14.10.1998 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(2)(c) substituted (25.1.2024) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2024 (No. 1), ss. 18(6), 22(2)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 7(2)(d) inserted (25.1.2024) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2024 (No. 1), ss. 18(3)(b), 22(2)(h)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/Geo6/10-11/2/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:23:58.609043+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}