# Church of England (Ecumenical Relations) Measure 1988, Section 2: Provision by Canon for participation in local ecumenical co-operative schemes

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) It shall be lawful for the General Synod to make provision by Canon for the bishop of a diocese—
(a) to enter into an agreement, with the appropriate authority of each Church participating in a local ecumenical co-operative scheme established or to be established in respect of an area in his diocese, for the participation of the Church of England in that scheme ;
(b) to make special provision as to the ministry in the area of a local ecumenical co-operative scheme of clerks in Holy Orders, deaconesses, lay workers and readers beneficed in or licensed to any parish wholly or partly in that area or ministering in or licensed to any cathedral church in that area.
(2) It shall be lawful for the General Synod to make provision by Canon for the bishop of a diocese in the case of an institution in the diocese in respect of which a clerk in Holy Orders is licensed under section 2 of the Extra-Parochial Ministry Measure 1967 or the bishop or bishops who make a bishop's mission order under section 80 of the Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011 —
(a) to enter into an agreement, with the appropriate authority of each Church participating in a local ecumenical co-operative scheme established or to be established in respect of that institution or in connection with the initiative endorsed by the bishop's mission order, for the participation of the Church of England in that scheme, and
(b) to make special provision as to the ministry in that institution or in connection with the initiative endorsed by the bishop's mission order of clerks in Holy Orders.
(3) The powers of the General Synod under subsections (1) and (2) above may be exercised only in respect of a local ecumenical co-operative scheme in which every other Church participating in the scheme is a Church to which this Measure applies.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/1988/3/section/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-ecumenical-relations-measure-1988/section-2
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