Pastoral Schemes and Orders What

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Pastoral Schemes and OrdersWhats New?

• Peter Wagon
• Church Commissioners

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And what isnt

• Much is not changing
• Diocesan consultations
• Consideration of Representations and the Appeal
  procedure
• Making Schemes and Orders

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Seeing Double Two Part Ones

• Pastoral Church Buildings Schemes
• S28, s46 and s47 Schemes
• S54 Orders
• Commissioners draft and publish
• Pastoral Schemes and Orders
• All others
• Commissioners validate
• Dioceses draft and publish

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Less Interested Parties

• Less is less
• LPAs are no longer statutory interested parties
  except for Pastoral Church Building Schemes
• Or possibly just Less Interested
• Deemed consent for s14 orders

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Drafting

• Dioceses to draft Schemes and Orders (except
  PCBSs)
• Commissioners will still draft if you wish
• Guidance notes
• Manual and on-line drafting tools

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Drafting (2)

• Skeletons
• Precedents
• Legal Opinions

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Designating Incumbents

• Designating an Incumbent where a benefice is
  enlarged by a transfer of parish(es)
• Simpler drafting
• Selecting incumbents for team and group
  ministries
• Consistent with new benefices

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Team Ministry Patronage

• Team Vicars and Team Rector now members of the
  Patronage Board
• Makes drafting easier
• Team Council now exercises parish representatives
  function in relation to Team Vicars
• In line with procedure for Team Rector

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Validation

• Three elements
• In the correct form
• Within the powers of the Bishop and DMPC
• Procedures under sections 3 and 4 followed
• NB other consents may also be needed

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Publication

• Statutory notices and newspaper notices
• Extension of notice period
• Representations to the Commissioners

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Making Schemes and orders

• Schemes made by Commissioners
• Orders made by Bishops

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Transmission of Schemes and Orders

• Over to you!

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Other changes

• Assistant Curates
• Call them what you like
• Can be given special responsibilities
• Suspension of Presentation
• Can now re-suspend if forget to renew

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Transitional Provisions

• Ive started so Ill finish
• If s3 consultations have begun before 11 June
  proceed as if DPMM not passed
• Schemes made but not revoked treated as made
  under amended provisions
• DPC and DRCUC continue until a new DMPC
  established