Ecclesiastical
District of St. Luke with St. James (Jersey) Law 1993
A LAW creating a new ecclesiastical
district of St. Luke with St. James from the existing ecclesiastical districts
of St. Luke and St. James, Jersey, and for connected purposes[1]
Commencement
[see
endnotes]
1 Constitution of new
ecclesiastical district
Immediately upon the
revocation of the Orders in Council there shall be constituted a new
ecclesiastical district to be known as “the Ecclesiastical District of
St. Luke with St. James, Jersey” (hereinafter referred to as “the
Ecclesiastical District”) which shall comprise the territory which
formerly comprised the District of St. Luke and the District of St. James.
2 District church of
ecclesiastical district
The District Church of
the Ecclesiastical District shall be the Church of St. Luke.
3 First incumbent of
ecclesiastical district
If, immediately before
the commencement of this Law the Reverend David Vernon Wastie
is the incumbent of the District of St. Luke and the district of St. James,
he shall be the first incumbent of the benefice and of the Ecclesiastical
District and no further formality shall be required for his admission to the said
benefice and no fee shall be payable in respect thereof.
4 Right of presentation of
subsequent incumbents[2]
Subject to Article 3, the right of
presentation to the benefice of the Ecclesiastical District shall be exercised by
the Crown.
5 Vesting of land and
other property
All such property,
whether tangible or intangible, movable or immovable, as remained vested
immediately before the commencement of this Law, in the Vicar, or the Vicar and
Churchwardens, of either the District of St. Luke or the District of St. James,
by virtue of their office, shall vest upon the same terms in the Vicar or the
Vicar and Churchwardens for the time being of the Ecclesiastical District.
6 Redundancy and sale of
St. James’s Church
(1) The Church of St. James
is declared redundant and the legal effect of the consecration of the redundant
building and the land annexed or belonging thereto shall be removed and the
jurisdiction of the Jersey Ecclesiastical Court shall cease to extend thereto.
(2) The Vicar of the
Ecclesiastical District is empowered to sell the redundant building and the
land annexed or belonging thereto to the public of Jersey, free of all
conditions to which the vendor is subject by virtue of a contract passed before
the Royal Court on 22nd March 1902, or otherwise and the net proceeds of
the sale shall be used for general ecclesiastical purposes within the
Ecclesiastical District.
(3) On the registration of
this Law in the Royal Court, a copy of this Law shall also be registered in the
Public Registry of Contracts.
(4) No fee shall be payable
under the Departments of the Judiciary
and the Legislature (Jersey) Law 1965, in relation to the
registration of a copy of this Law as required by Article 6(3).
(5) The contents of the
redundant building shall be disposed of as the Jersey Ecclesiastical Court
shall direct.
7 Application of proceeds
of sale of parsonage house
The net proceeds of the
sale or lease of the parsonage house of the former district of St. James shall
be applied to the purchase of a parsonage house for the Ecclesiastical
District.
8 Citation
This Law may be cited as the Ecclesiastical District of St. Luke
with St. James (Jersey) Law 1993.