{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-2015/rule-4.2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-2015/rule-4.2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1568",
  "legislation_title": "The Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-2015",
  "path": "rule/4.2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4.2",
  "heading": "Documents etc. to be submitted to Diocesan Advisory Committee",
  "text": "(1) Intending applicants must submit the following to the Diocesan Advisory Committee when consulting it on works or proposals—\n(a) the standard information in Form 1A (where consultation is being carried out on behalf of the parochial church council) or Form 1B (where consultation is being carried out by the relevant person or body) (but see paragraph (3)); and\n(b) a summary of the works or other proposals being consulted on.\n(2) Intending applicants must submit the following to the Diocesan Advisory Committee when proposals reach the stage at which they are available—\n(a) any relevant designs, plans or photographs;\n(b) any advice or other material relating to the environmental implications of the works or proposals including, in the case of matters to which net zero guidance applies, an explanation of how the intending applicants, in formulating the proposals, have had due regard to that guidance;\n(ba) where proposals involve the movement, removal or alteration of a statue, plaque, memorial, monument or other article because it is considered to conflict with the role of a church as a local centre of worship and mission, an explanation of how the intending applicants, in formulating the proposals, have had due regard to guidance issued for the purposes of this sub-paragraph by the Church Buildings Council under section 55 of the Dioceses, Pastoral and Mission Measure 2007;\n(c) any other documents giving particulars of the works or proposals; and\n(d) any relevant correspondence with Historic England, Natural England, a national amenity society, the local planning authority or the Church Buildings Council.\n(3) If the intending applicants have previously submitted the standard information required by paragraph (1)(a) to the Diocesan Advisory Committee they need not do so again unless the information that was previously submitted has changed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 4 substituted (1.4.2020) by The Faculty Jurisdiction (Amendment) Rules 2019 (S.I. 2019/1184), rules 1(2), 6 (with rule 23(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 4.2(2)(b) inserted (1.7.2022) by The Faculty Jurisdiction (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/155), rules 1(2), 2(3) (with rule 6(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Rule 4.2(2)(ba) inserted (1.1.2024) by The Faculty Jurisdiction (Amendment) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/866), rules 1(2), 2(1) (with rule 5(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1568/rule/4.2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:33:22.575744+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."
}