Jersey Law
25/1993
ECCLESIASTICAL
DISTRICT OF ST. LUKE WITH ST. JAMES (JERSEY) LAW 1993
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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,
in the Diocese of Winchester, and for connected purposes, sanctioned by Order
of Her Majesty in Council of the
16th day of NOVEMBER 1993
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(Registered on the
19th day of November 1993)
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STATES OF JERSEY
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The 16th day of March 1993
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WHEREAS the Ecclesiastical District of St.
Luke, (hereinafter referred to as “the District of St. Luke”)
comprising parts of the Parishes of St. Helier, St. Saviour and St. Clement, Jersey, in the Diocese of
Winchester (hereinafter referred to as “the Diocese”) was
constituted by Order in Council of the 6th day of April 1846;
WHEREAS the District Chapelry
of St. James (hereinafter referred to as “the District of St.
James”) comprising a part of the Parish of St. Helier,
Jersey, as aforesaid, was assigned as a district chapelry
by Order in Council of the 7th day of March 1904 (in this Law referred to together
with the Order of the 6th day of April 1846 as “the Orders in
Council”);
WHEREAS on the 24th day of May 1988 the
Deanery Synod of the Church of England in Jersey resolved that the Districts of
St.Luke and St. James should be merged into one
Ecclesiastical District and Benefice to be known as “The Ecclesiastical
District and Benefice of St. Luke with St. James, Jersey”;
WHEREAS
the Bishop of the Diocese has approved the proposed merger of the Districts of
St. Luke and St. James to form a new ecclesiastical district;
AND
WHEREAS the States
by their Petition addressed this day to Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council
pray for the revocation of the Orders in Council;
NOW
THEREFORE, THE STATES,
subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted
the following Law –
ARTICLE 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.
ARTICLE 2
District church
of ecclesiastical district
The District
Church of the Ecclesiastical District shall be the Church of St. Luke.
ARTICLE 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.
ARTICLE 4
Right of
presentation of subsequent incumbents
Subject to
Article 3 of this Law, the right of presentation to the benefice of the
Ecclesiastical District shall be exercised alternately by the Bishop of the
Diocese and the Crown, the Bishop of the Diocese having the first turn.
ARTICLE 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.
ARTICLE 6
Redundancy and
sale of St. James’s Church
(1) The
Church of St. James is hereby declared redundant and the legal effect of the
consecration of the redundant building and the land annexed or belonging
thereto shall be removed hereby and the jurisdiction of the Jersey
Ecclesiastical Court shall cease to extend thereto.
(2) The
Vicar of the Ecclesiastical District is hereby empowered to sell the redundant
building and the land annexed or belonging thereto to the public of the Island,
free of all conditions to which the vendor is subject by virtue of a contract
passed before the Royal Court on the twenty-second day of 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, as amended, in relation to the registration of
a copy of this Law as required by paragraph (3) of this Article.
(5) The
contents of the redundant building shall be disposed of as the Jersey
Ecclesiastical Court shall direct.
ARTICLE 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.
ARTICLE 8
Citation and
commencement
(1) This
Law may be cited as the Ecclesiastical District of St. Luke with St. James
(Jersey) Law 1993.
(2) This
Law shall come into force on such day, not before the day on which the
revocation of the Orders in Council becomes effective, as the States may by Act
appoint.
G.H.C. COPPOCK
Greffier of the States.