{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-discipline-amendment-rules-2016/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-discipline-amendment-rules-2016/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/848",
  "legislation_title": "The Clergy Discipline (Amendment) Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-discipline-amendment-rules-2016",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Suspension",
  "text": "(1) Rule 62 is amended as follows.\n(2) The text of rule 62 becomes sub-rule (1).\n(3) In sub-paragraph (1)(e) for the words “the date when the suspension takes effect” there are substituted the words “receipt of the notice of suspension”.\n(4) After sub-rule (1) the following new sub-rules are inserted—\n“(2) A notice of suspension given under rule 61C(3) shall be signed by the bishop and shall—\n(a) state the date from when the suspension takes effect,\n(b) explain that the suspension, unless revoked by the bishop, will continue until the expiry of the period of 3 months following the date of service of the notice on the priest or deacon,\n(c) explain—\n(i) that the bishop may cause a further notice of suspension to be served on the priest or deacon, and that this will continue for the same period as is specified in paragraph (b),\n(ii) that a further notice or notices of suspension may thereafter be served on the priest or deacon, and\n(iii) that such notice or notices may be in different terms from any previous notice,\n(d) state that the effect of the suspension is that the priest or deacon is forbidden to exercise or perform without the leave of the bishop any right or duty of or incidental to the office of priest or deacon, as the case may be, and\n(e) explain that within a period of 14 days from receipt of the notice of suspension the priest or deacon may appeal against the suspension to the President, who may within 28 days following the lodging of the appeal either confirm or revoke the suspension.\n(3) A notice of suspension given under rule 61D(3) shall be signed by the bishop and shall—\n(a) state the date from when the suspension takes effect,\n(b) explain that the suspension, unless revoked by the bishop, will—\n(i) continue until the expiry of the period of 3 months following the date of service of the notice on the priest or deacon, or,\n(ii) end if the application for permission to institute proceedings out of time be refused before the expiry of that period, or\n(iii) end, if permission to institute proceedings be granted before the expiry of that period, upon—\n(aa) the expiry of the period of 14 days beginning with the day on which disciplinary proceedings are instituted, or\n(bb) the expiry of the period within which permission was given for proceedings to be instituted if the proceedings are not instituted within that period, or\n(cc) service of any notice of suspension under section 36(1) of the Measure,\nas the case may be,\n(c) explain that if the application for permission is not determined before the end of the expiry of the period of 3 months following the date of service of the notice of suspension—\n(i) the bishop may cause a further notice of suspension to be served on the priest or deacon, and that this will continue for the same period as is specified in paragraph (b)(i),\n(ii) that a further notice or notices of suspension may thereafter be served on the priest or deacon, and\n(iii) that such notice or notices may be in different terms from any previous notice,\n(d) state that the effect of the suspension is that the priest or deacon is forbidden to exercise or perform without the leave of the bishop any right or duty of or incidental to the office of priest or deacon, as the case may be, and\n(e) explain that within a period of 14 days from receipt of the notice of suspension the priest or deacon may appeal against the suspension to the President, who may within 28 days following the lodging of the appeal either confirm or revoke the suspension.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/848/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:20:44.990622+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."
}