# Clergy Conduct Measure 2026, Paragraph 3: Provincial panels

Extent: E
Status: prospective

(1) Each person included on a provincial panel under section 21 of the CDM immediately before the commencement of section 10 of this Measure continues to be included on the panel after that commencement; and the composition of the panel is to be treated as complying with that section.
(2) In the case of a person included on a provincial panel under sub-paragraph (1) above, the six-year period under section 21 of the CDM that was running immediately before the commencement of section 11 of this Measure—
(a) continues after that commencement until the date when it would have expired under section 21 of the CDM if that section were still in force, and
(b) is to be treated as a period of six years for the purposes of section 11 of this Measure.
(3) If a casual vacancy occurs among those included on a provincial panel under sub-paragraph (1), the nomination of a person to fill the vacancy must—
(a) be made by the bishop or archbishop who made the nomination under section 21 of the CDM in respect of which the vacancy has occurred, and
(b) be made subject to the same conditions as that nomination was.
(4) A person nominated to fill a casual vacancy is included on the provincial panel concerned until the expiry of the six-year period that is continuing under sub-paragraph (2); and on the expiry of that period—
(a) section 11(2) of this Measure applies where the nomination under section 21 of the CDM (or the first nomination under that section for the category concerned) was made under subsection (2)(a) or (b) or (3) of that section;
(b) section 11(3) of this Measure applies where the nomination under section 21 of the CDM (or the first nomination under that section for the category concerned) was made under subsection (2)(c) of that section.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/2026/1/schedule/2/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-measure-2026/schedule-2/paragraph-3
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