{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-measure-2026/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-measure-2026/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/2026/1",
  "legislation_title": "Clergy Conduct Measure 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-measure-2026",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Panel of assessors: composition",
  "text": "(1) The Clergy Conduct Commission must compile and maintain a list, known as the “panel of assessors”, of persons suitable for appointment as a case assessor under this Measure.\n(2) The panel of assessors consists of persons nominated by the Clergy Conduct Commission in such numbers as it thinks appropriate, with one or more of them being nominated as a “lead assessor” for the purposes of this Measure.\n(3) But the nomination of a person as a lead assessor may be made only on the recommendation of the Dean of the Arches and Auditor.\n(4) A lead assessor may delegate functions to another person included on the panel of assessors.\n(5) The lead assessor (or, if there is more than one, each of them acting jointly) must make an annual report on the exercise of the lead assessor’s functions during the previous year to the General Synod through the House of Bishops.\n(6) A person is eligible for inclusion on the panel of assessors if that person—\n(a) is a clerk in Holy Orders and has been for the preceding five years, or\n(b) is a lay person who is an actual communicant and is on the electoral roll of a parish or the community roll of a cathedral.\n(7) It is for the Clergy Conduct Commission to decide the terms on which a person nominated for inclusion on the panel of assessors is so included.\n(8) In deciding how many persons to nominate under subsection (2), which persons to nominate or the terms on which to include a person on the panel of assessors, the Clergy Conduct Commission must have due regard to such advice as the House of Bishops may issue on the principles to apply.\n(9) In section 86 of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018 (fees orders), in subsection (8) (meaning of “legal officer”), after paragraph (d) (but before the following “or”) insert—\n“(da) a person included on the panel of assessors under the Clergy Conduct Measure 2026,”.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 12 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 73(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/2026/1/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:22:03.551412+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."
}