The Care of Cathedrals (Amendment) Rules 2020

These Rules amend the Care of Cathedrals Rules 2006 (S.I. 2006/1941) by substituting a new rule 28 dealing with the compilation and maintenance by cathedral Chapters of inventories of objects that are considered to be of architectural, archaeological, artistic or historic interest. The new rule 28 updates and improves the existing rule in various respects. The principal changes include requiring the Chapter to keep the cathedral inventory up to date by adding entries, making amendments, recording conservation work, and by recording the sale, other disposal or loss of objects listed in the inventory (paragraph (1)(d) and (2) of new rule 28); requiring the inventory to be in electronic form (subject to transitional arrangements for inventories currently in paper form) (paragraphs (4) and (5)); making provision for the way in which inventories are stored and backed up (paragraphs (4) and (6)); providing for the Chapter to determine which parts of the inventory are to be accessible to the public and which parts are to be accessible only to authorised persons (paragraph (8)); enabling objects which form a specific group to be included as a single entry in the inventory (paragraph (11)(b)).