Clergy Discipline Rules

These rules (S.I. 2005 No. 2022) were made under the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 and came into force on 1st January 2006. The complete rules are available on the OPSI website here. The various standard forms provided in the Schedule to the rules, for use at various formal stages of proceedings under the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003, are also available separately as follows:

Form 1a Complaint about a priest or deacon

Form 1b Complaint about a bishop or archbishop

Form 1c Application for permission to make a complaint of misconduct out of time

Form 1d Complaint about a clerk in holy orders serving in a cathedral

Form 1e Complaint about a chaplain of a prison, hospital, university, school or other institution

Form 1f  Complaint about a chaplain in the armed forces

Form 1g Complaint about a minister who has an archbishop's licence to preach throughout the province, or a minister who has a licence from the University of Oxford or Cambridge

Form 2 Respondent's answer to a complaint

Form 3 Statement in support of a complaint, or in support of an answer to a complaint

Form 4 Request by a complainant to the President of Tribunals to review the dismissal of a complaint

Form 5 Referral by a complainant to the President of Tribunals to consider a determination of no further action

Form 6 Respondent's consent to a conditional deferment

Form 7 Respondent's consent to a penalty

Form 8 Notice of application to the Registrar of Tribunals

Form 9 Response to an application to the Registrar of Tribunals

Form 10 Notice in respect of the production of documents

Form 11 Order to produce documents

Form 12a Notice of suspension of a priest or deacon under section 36(1)(a) of the Measure

Form 12b Notice of suspension of a bishop or archbishop under section 37(1)(a) of the Measure

Form 13a Notice of suspension of a priest or deacon under section 36(1)(b) of the Measure

Form 13b Notice of suspension of a bishop or archbishop under section 37(1)(b) of the Measure