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# 2020 No. 403 

# ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES 

The Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2020 

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The Secretary of State, with the approval of the Treasury, makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1 of the Redundant Churches and other Religious Buildings Act 1969( a ) and now vested in the Secretary of State( b ). 

In accordance with section 1(4) of that Act, a draft of this instrument was laid before and approved by a resolution of the House of Commons. 

## Citation and commencement 

1.  This Order may be cited as the Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2020 and comes into force on 1st April 2020. 

## Period for grants to the Churches Conservation Trust 

2.  The period beginning with 1st April 2020 and ending with 31st March 2021 is specified for the purposes of section 1(1) of the Redundant Churches and other Religious Buildings Act 1969 (“the Act”). 

## Aggregate amount of grants 

3.  The aggregate amount of the grants that may be paid under section 1(1) of the Act in the period specified in article 2 must not exceed £2,789,000. 

## Revocation of the previous Order 

4.  The Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2016( c ) is revoked. 

