{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-miscellaneous-provisions-measure-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-miscellaneous-provisions-measure-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/2014/1",
  "legislation_title": "Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-miscellaneous-provisions-measure-2014",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Schedule 2 to the Incumbents (Vacation of Benefices) Measure 1977 is amended as follows—\n(a) in paragraph 2(1)(a)(i), after the words “ecclesiastical service” there are inserted the words “ , in respect of service served up to 31st December 1997 and in pensionable service within the meaning of rules made under section 2 of the Pensions Measure 1997 (“the Funded Scheme rules”), in respect of service served after that date ”;\n(b) in paragraph 2(2)(b), after the words “pension regulations” there are inserted the words “ or the Funded Scheme rules ”;\n(c) in paragraph 2(2)(c), for the words from “whole-time” to “pensions regulations)” there are substituted the words “ service which is pensionable service within the meaning of the Funded Scheme rules ”;\n(d) for paragraph 2(4) there is substituted the following sub-paragraph—\n“(4) The period during which a person is in receipt of periodical payments under paragraph 2 shall be deemed to be a period of pensionable service for the purposes of the Funded Scheme rules, but shall not constitute “service” for any other purpose of those rules”;\n(e) in paragraph 7 there are added the words “ and, in the case of a person who is in receipt of periodical payments under paragraph 2, the diocesan board of finance is “the responsible body” for the purposes of section 4 of the Pensions Measure 1997 ”; and\n(f) in paragraph 8—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (1), after the definition of “pensions regulations” there are inserted, at the appropriate place, the following definitions—\n“the Funded Scheme Rules” means the rules made under section 2 of the Pensions Measure 1997,\n“stipendiary ecclesiastical service” has the same meaning as in the pensions regulations, and\n“retiring age” has the same meaning as in the Funded Scheme rules; and\n(ii) sub-paragraph (2) is omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 7 in force at 1.1.2015 by S.I. 2014/2077, art. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/2014/1/schedule/2/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:22:26.012289+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."
}