{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-rules-2026/rule-70",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-rules-2026/rule-70.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/882",
  "legislation_title": "The Clergy Conduct Rules 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-rules-2026",
  "path": "rule/70",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Penalties or sanctions imposed without a complaint: copies of decision",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies if a bishop or archbishop, or the President of Tribunals, imposes a penalty or administrative sanction under section 46 of the CCM (conviction for offence etc.).\n(2) A bishop or archbishop who imposes a penalty or sanction must send a copy of the written record of the decision under section 46 (7) of the CCM to—\n(a) the clerk in Holy Orders on whom the penalty or sanction is imposed,\n(b) the Investigation and Tribunals Team,\n(c) either the provincial registrar (in the case of a decision made by an archbishop) or the diocesan registrar (in the case of a decision made by a bishop), and\n(d) if a diocesan safeguarding officer or the national director of safeguarding was consulted under section 46 (3) (c) of the CCM before the imposition of penalty or sanction, that person.\n(3) If the President of Tribunals imposes a penalty or administrative sanction under section 46 of the CCM—\n(a) the decision on the penalty or administrative sanction to impose must be recorded in writing, and\n(b) the President of Tribunals must send a copy of the written record of the decision to—\n(i) the clerk in Holy Orders on whom the penalty or sanction is imposed,\n(ii) the other archbishop,\n(iii) the Investigation and Tribunals Team,\n(iv) the provincial registrar, and\n(v) the national director of safeguarding, if that person was consulted under section 46 (3) (c) of the CCM before the imposition of the penalty or sanction.",
  "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/70",
    "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."
}