{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-offices-terms-of-service-regulations-2009/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2108",
  "legislation_title": "The Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-offices-terms-of-service-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“capability procedures” means the procedures described in regulation 31 below;\n“grievance procedures” means the procedures described in regulation 32 below;\n“residentiary canon” includes a lay residentiary canon;\n“working day” means any day which is not a rest day or part of a rest period or which is not taken as part of annual or special leave or any such leave as is referred to in regulation 23(1) below and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;\n“the Measure” means the Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) Measure 2009.\n(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (3A) below, these Regulations apply to all office holders holding office subject to Common Tenure, whenever appointed to their office, and the following provisions of these Regulations (except regulation 33(3) below) shall apply to an office holder who becomes subject to Common Tenure whilst holding his or her office as if he or she had taken up that office on the day on which he or she became subject to Common Tenure.\n(3) Where an office holder holds an office in pursuance of a contract of employment, these Regulations shall not apply to the office holder in respect of that office, without prejudice to the application of the Regulations in respect of any other office held by that office holder.\n(3A) These Regulations do not apply to a person licensed under section 2A of the Extra-Parochial Ministry Measure 1967 (ministry by member of religious community) in respect of the performance of offices or services in accordance with that licence.\n(4) For the purposes of these Regulations, a residentiary canon is a “qualifying residentiary canon” if—\n(a) the Commissioners are required to make payments to the residentiary canon under section 28(1)(b) of the Cathedrals Measure 2021,\n(b) the Chapter of the cathedral concerned pays the whole of the residentiary canon’s stipend or other emoluments and provides the residentiary canon’s housing, or\n(c) the residentiary canon does not come within sub-paragraph (a) or (b) but the Chapter of the cathedral concerned has resolved that the residentiary canon is nonetheless to be regarded as being a qualifying residentiary canon.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (coming into force in accordance with s. 22(3) of the amending Measure) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2024 (No. 1), Sch. 1 para. 8 (with s. 7(5))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) inserted (31.1.2011) by The Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2848), regs. 1, 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (25.1.2024) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2024 (No. 1), ss. 5(2), 22(2)(d) (with s. 5(6))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 2(3) added (31.1.2011) by The Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2848), regs. 1, 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 2(3A) inserted (25.1.2024) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2024 (No. 1), ss. 5(1), 22(2)(d) (with s. 5(6))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 2(4) inserted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/840), reg. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.1.2010, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2009 No.1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2108/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:40:35.885428+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."
}