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Statutory Instruments
2011 No. 1729
Ecclesiastical Law, England
The Payments to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2011
Made (Sealed by the Church Commissioners)
2nd June 2011
Approved by the General Synod
9th July 2011
Laid before Parliament
21st July 2011
Coming into force
1st April 2012
Interpretation
1. In this Order "the Trust" means the Churches Conservation Trust, "the Commissioners" means the Church Commissioners, "the 1983 Measure" means the Pastoral Measure 1983 and "the funding period" means the period specified in paragraph 2.
Funding period for Part III of 1983 Measure
2. The funding period for the purposes of Part III of the 1983 Measure shall be the period beginning with 1st April 2012 and ending with 31st March 2015.
Payments to the Trust
3. In respect of the funding period the total amount (comprising grants made under section 44(10) of the 1983 Measure and moneys allocated under section 52(1) of that Measure) to be paid by the Commissioners to the Trust shall be £4,065,000.
Condition for payments to the Trust
4. A payment on account of the sum specified in paragraph 3 shall be made to the Trust only when the Commissioners are satisfied that the payment is a portion of a specific sum of money needed by the Trust and that the balance of that sum will be paid to the Trust out of moneys provided by Parliament.
Revocation
5. The Payments to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2008(4) is hereby revoked.
Citation and coming into force
6. This Order may be cited as The Payments to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2011 and shall come into force on 1st April 2012.
The COMMON SEAL of the Church Commissioners was hereunto affixed on 2nd June 2011
Andrew Brown
Secretary
Church House, London SW1P 3AZ
Approved by the General Synod on 9th July 2011
C. J. Podmore
Clerk to the Synod
Church House, London SW1P 3AZ
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order provides, in respect of the period from 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2015, that the total amount to be paid to the Churches Conservation Trust shall be £4,065,000, comprising grants made by the Church Commissioners and moneys allocated by them out of the net proceeds of sale or exchange of churches closed for regular public worship or of land occupied by them or net premiums for the grant of leases of such churches or land. The Order also provides that the total amount can only be paid if it is a proportion of a sum needed by the Trust and Parliament has approved the payment of the balance of that sum.