{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-rules-2026/rule-68",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-rules-2026/rule-68.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/882",
  "legislation_title": "The Clergy Conduct Rules 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-rules-2026",
  "path": "rule/68",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Penalties: imposition without a complaint",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where a bishop or archbishop, or the President of Tribunals, proposes to exercise the power to impose a penalty under—\n(a) section 46 (1) of the CCM (conviction for offence), or\n(b) rule 87(5)(a) (work in other capacities).\n(2) The Investigation and Tribunals Team must—\n(a) prepare the report required for the purposes of section 46 (3) of the CCM before the end of 14 days beginning with the day after the person proposing to exercise the power makes a request for the report, and\n(b) within the period specified in sub-paragraph (a)—\n(i) give a copy of the report to the respondent, and\n(ii) if a diocesan safeguarding officer or the national director of safeguarding is required to be consulted under section 46 (3) (c) of the CCM before the penalty is imposed, give a copy of the report to that person.\n(3) The period within which the cleric may make representations under section 46 (3) (b) of the CCM is 14 days beginning with the day after the invitation to make those representations is given.\n(4) If the cleric makes representations under section 46 (3) (b) of the CCM, the cleric must, within the period specified in paragraph (3)—\n(a) give a copy of the representations to the Investigation and Tribunals Team, and\n(b) if a diocesan safeguarding officer or the national director of safeguarding is required to be consulted under section 46 (3) (c) of the CCM before the penalty is imposed, give a copy of the representations to that person.\n(5) If the person proposing to impose the penalty consults a diocesan safeguarding officer or the national director of safeguarding under section 46 (3) (c) of the CCM—\n(a) the consultation must be conducted in writing,\n(b) the person consulted must respond to a request for consultation before the end of 14 days beginning with the day after the request was made, and\n(c) a copy of the response must be provided to the respondent.\n(6) For the purposes of the application of this rule in relation to the exercise of the power under rule 87(5)(a) (power to impose penalty for misconduct committed in work in other capacity), references in paragraphs (2) to (5) to provisions of section 46 of the CCM are references to those provisions as applied by rule 87(5)(b).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/882/rule/68",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:56:54.526438+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."
}