Explanatory note

This Order gives effect to a Scheme of the Charity Commission relating to the Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement, Building and Repairing of Churches and Chapels (“the charity”). The Object of the charity set out in the Scheme is to maintain, build, enlarge and repair consecrated or dedicated churches and chapels and other places of worship of the Church of England by making grants upon application.

The charity is regulated by the Church Building Society Act 1828 (c.42). The Scheme makes new provision for the administration of the charity and dis-applies provisions made by the 1828 Act which are inconsistent with, or rendered otiose by, the provisions of the Scheme.