Cathedrals Measure 1963

11 Further provisions which may be included in constitutions and statutes of cathedral churches.E

(1)In addition to the matters for which the constitution and statutes of each cathedral church are required to provide under the foregoing provisions of this Measure, the constitution and statutes may make provision for the good government of the cathedral church and in particular may—

(a)constitute any body or create any office for the purpose of the performance of functions in relation to the cathedral church;

(b)specify the functions of that body or the person holding that office in relation to the cathedral church and, where applicable, the diocese;

(c)provide for the appointment and terms of service of persons holding office in the cathedral church or employed in connection with it;

(d)provide for the regulation and superintendence of the services, fabric, fittings, ornaments, furniture and monuments of the cathedral church;

(e)provide for the administration of all property and revenues of, or held in connection with, the cathedral church, including any trust fund applicable to any special purpose in connection with the cathedral church;

(f)provide for the abolition, suspension or termination of suspension of any dignity, office or body in the cathedral church; and

(g)provide for any incidental and supplementary matters for which the Commission thinks it expedient to provide.

(2)Without prejudice to the generality of the last foregoing subsection, the constitution and statutes of any such cathedral church may—

(a)provide for the appointment by the administrative body of a committee consisting of such members of that body as may be specified in the constitution and statutes, and for the delegation to that body of such functions of the administrative body as may be so specified;

(b)provide for the vacation of office by residentiary canons at such age as may be specified in the scheme, unless the bishop, after such consultation (if any) as may be specified in the scheme, otherwise determines;

(c)provide for the creation of residentiary canonries the holders of which shall continue in office for a specified term of years only, either with or without eligibility for re-appointment;

(d)provide that where a clerk in Holy Orders who is appointed to an archdeaconry or any other diocesan office becomes, whether at the time he is so appointed or at a later date, a canon on the understanding that he will hold the office of canon so long as he holds that archdeaconry or other diocesan office, he shall on ceasing to hold the archdeaconry or other diocesan office vacate office as a canon, unless the bishop otherwise determines;

(e)provide that a non-residentiary canon shall vacate office upon ceasing to reside in the diocese, unless requested in writing to continue in office by the bishop of the diocese, so, however, that a non-residentiary canon who has been appointed in connection with an office held or function performed by him, shall, so long as he holds that office or performs that function, continue as a non-residentiary canon notwithstanding that he no longer resides in the diocese;

(f)provide for the appointment of non-residentiary canons who are not resident in the diocese and for the exclusion of these canons from any provision made under the last foregoing paragraph;

(g)provide for the annexation of a canonry to any such office as may be specified in the scheme and for the severance of a canonry from any office to which it is annexed;

(h)provide for the payment of pensions to retired laymen who were employed in connection with the cathedral church and to the widows and dependants of such laymen;

(i)provide, where a cathedral church is the parish church, that part of that cathedral church shall be a parish church or, where part of a cathedral church is a parish church, that the cathedral church or any other part thereof shall be the parish church;

(j)provide for the establishment of a college of lay canons and specify their functions;

(k)empower the bishop to confer the designation of dean emeritus, provost emeritus, canon emeritus or prebendary emeritus upon any person who retires immediately after holding the office of dean, provost, canon or prebendary as the case may be;

(l)provide in any case in which it is expedient for assigning part of the capitular revenues or property of the cathedral church for the promotion of the study of theology or any other branch of sacred learning, sacred music or ecclesiastical art; and

(m)provide, in the case of a parish church cathedral which has a cathedral council, that any functions of the cathedral council relating to the duties of the provost and canons and to the ordering of services shall be exercised by such members of the cathedral council as are clerks in Holy Orders.