§ 10.34 p.m.
§ The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. E. S. Bishop)I beg to move,
That the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction (Amendment) Measure 1974, passed by the General Synod of the Church of England, be presented to Her Majesty for Her Royal Assent in the form in which the said Measure was laid before Parliament.This Measure updates the 1963 Measure, to bring it into line with changes Parliament has made recently in other aspects of the law with regard to deprivation of clergy following trial by secular courts. It also provides for discretionary powers.
§ Question put and agreed to.
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