Regulation 6 Requirements to provide information: termination or suspension of authority

Where the authority of a lay minister to exercise ministry is terminated, or ceases for a limited period, in circumstances of a kind mentioned in paragraph (2), the registration officer for the lay minister must, within 24 hours of the termination or cessation taking effect, inform the Archbishops’ Council of the termination or cessation but not of the circumstances.

The circumstances referred to in paragraph (1) are circumstances where—

Where the authority of a lay minister to exercise ministry is terminated, or ceases for a limited period, in circumstances of a kind other than those mentioned in paragraph (2), the registration officer for the lay minister must, within three working days of the termination or cessation taking effect, inform the Archbishops’ Council of the termination or cessation and of the circumstances.

Where a lay minister is suspended from exercising ministry, or a lay minister’s suspension from doing so is terminated, the registration officer for the lay minister must, within 24 hours of the suspension, or the termination of the suspension, taking effect, inform the Archbishops’ Council of the suspension or termination but not of the circumstances.

Where the revocation of a lay minister’s licence to exercise ministry under Canon D3, E6 or E8 is varied under that Canon, the registration officer for the lay minister must, within 24 hours of the variation taking effect, inform the Archbishops’ Council of the variation but not of the circumstances.

The reference in paragraph (2)(c) to the capability procedures is, in so far as the provisions for the capability procedures that are made in regulations under section 2 (2) (d) of the Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) Measure 2009 do not have effect in the Channel Islands or either of them, to be read as including a reference to the equivalent provisions which do have effect there.

The references in paragraph (6) to the Channel Islands or either of them have the same meaning as references to the Bailiwicks or either of them have in the Channel Islands Measure 2020^f2.

In its application to the Isle of Man, this regulation has effect as if the reference in paragraph (2)(c) to the Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) Measure 2009 were a reference to that Measure as it has effect in that island.