# The Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) Regulations 2009, Regulation 19: Continuing ministerial development

Extent: E

(1) Each office holder (other than an archbishop) shall be under a duty to participate in arrangements approved by the diocesan bishop or, in the case of a diocesan bishop, by the archbishop of the province concerned, as appropriate for the continuing ministerial development of that office holder.
(2) The bishop or, as the case may be, the archbishop, shall have regard, in carrying out ... functions under paragraph (1) above of approving the arrangements referred to therein, to any guidance issued by the Archbishops’ Council.
(3) Each archbishop shall make such arrangements as he or she thinks appropriate for his or her continuing ministerial development.
(4) Any diocesan bishop shall be under a duty to use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that every office holder in the diocese is afforded opportunities to participate in such education or training as is appropriate to promote that office holder’s ministerial development.
(5) In the case of an office holder who is a qualifying residentiary canon, the functions imposed by paragraphs (1), (2) and (4) are instead to be carried out by the dean of the cathedral concerned; and the references in those paragraphs to the diocesan bishop are accordingly to be read as references to the dean.
(6) But paragraph (5) does not apply in so far as the functions imposed by paragraphs (1), (2) and (4) relate to education or training on the safeguarding of children or vulnerable adults (within the meaning of the Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2108/regulation/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-offices-terms-of-service-regulations-2009/regulation-19
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