Article 48

On any review the Commission of Review shall determine the question or questions raised by the petition, and may thereupon confirm, reverse or vary any finding of the Commission of Convocation or the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved, as the case may be, against which the petition is brought, or may remit the case with their determination to the latter commission or court to take such further proceedings therein as the Commission of Review may direct:

Provided that, if the review is of a finding of a Commission of Convocation, the Commission of Review shall not make a finding of guilt (whether by way of variation or reversal of the finding reviewed), but shall exercise instead their power of remitting the case to the Commission of Convocation with their determination and directions thereon.

Where the review is of a finding of the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved, the powers of the Commission of Review shall include power to vary the censure or impose a censure for any offence in respect of which they confirm, vary or make a finding of guilt, but without prejudice to their power to remit the decision as to the censure to the said court.

The Registrar of the Commission of Review shall give notice in writing to the registrar (as defined in rule 2) of any determination or directions made or given by the Commission of Review, and if the case is remitted to the Commission of Convocation or, as the case may be, the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved for further proceedings therein, the Dean of the Arches and Auditor or, as the case may be, the presiding judge of the said court shall fix a time and place for such proceedings, and rules 25(2) and (3), 26 and 27 or, as the case may be, rules 36(2) to (4), 37 and 38 shall apply for the purposes of those further proceedings, with the necessary modifications, in like manner as they apply for the purposes of the original trial.