Section 3 Safeguarding Code revisions: exceptions to requirement for Synod approvalI1

In section 5C of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016 (Code of Practice: scrutiny and commencement), in subsection (5), at the end insert

“; but subsection (1)(b) does not apply in the case of—

(a)

proposed revisions to requirements imposed by the Code on relevant persons, if the House of Bishops considers that those proposed revisions are insubstantial, or

(b)

proposed revisions to guidance given by the Code to relevant persons on compliance with requirements imposed by the Code on them.”