Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Church of England Act 1854 - SECT 3

Synod may establish a Commission

3. Synod may establish a Commission

It shall be lawful for any such Synod by any regulation act or resolution as
aforesaid to establish a Commission for the trial of all Ecclesiastical
offences and also to frame rules for the conduct management and mode of
proceeding in and under such Commission and all such rules from time to time
to vary alter and repeal. And such Commission shall be so constituted as such
Synod may deem expedient. Provided that no such Commission nor any person
acting thereunder shall by virtue of this Act have or exercise any
jurisdiction over persons who are not Clergymen of the said United Church of
England and Ireland. And provided also that such Commission and the persons
acting thereunder shall report to the Bishop within whose diocese any such
offence shall occur their opinion of the matters referred to them and the
penalty which they would recommend to be imposed which penalty the Bishop
shall not have the power to exceed.