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Ordinance To The Law On The Board Of Directors And The Use Of National Church Churches, Etc.

Original Language Title: Bekendtgørelse af lov om bestyrelse og brug af folkekirkens kirker m.m.

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Kirker's board of directors
Chapter 2 Kirkers use
Chapter 3 Graduation by the Church of the People's Church
Chapter 4 Complagument and entry into force, etc.

Publication of the board and use of church churches and so on.

This shall be made known to the churches and the use of the churches of the churches and so on, cf. Law Order no. 582 of 27. May 2010, with the changes resulting from paragraph 4 of Law No 347 of 3. April 2013.

Chapter 1

Kirker's board of directors

§ 1. Self-governing churches are boarded by the Church Council.

Paragraph 2. Other churches are managed by the person who owns the church, or the person who owns the solution sum for the church ticker.

Paragraph 3. For the Board of Election Congregation, the rules of the Law on Election Congregation Act.

Paragraph 4. Owning a graveyard of a number of churches together shall be drawn up in a statute with rules governing the Board of Directors of the cemeteries. The attachment shall be approved by the Provstian Committee.

§ 2. (The case).

§ 3. The Minister for Gender Equality and Church may allow the funeral parlor to be separated from the Church's Board of Directors. Rules on the management board of the funeral home are laid down in a statute approved by the Minister for Gender Equality and the Church.

Kirker transition to self-roads

§ 4. The person who owns a church or the person who owns the solution sum for the cemeteries, cf. Section 1 (1). 2 may require the church to be transferred to self-roads, provided that :

1) the church is delivered in good condition ;

2) The church is unpaid, and

3) the income of the church, land, capital, etc., together with the church.

Chapter 2

Kirkers use

The church-folk use of the churches

§ 5. The church may be used by the Church or with the consent of the parish authority to other church purposes other than church services and church acts. However, for the holding of church concerts, the construction of churches and similar requests are also required from the bishop if a minority of the parishioners is demanding this.

Paragraph 2. Priests in the church are entitled to use the churches they are employed by, for services, church acts and church meetings, cf. However, Section 9 of the Law on the Membership of the People's Church, the service and the soga solution.

Paragraph 3. Conformity of the time used for the use of a church shall be determined by the bishop.

§ 6. Priests of the People's Church can leave a church they are employed by, to other priests in the church of worship and church acts.

Paragraph 2. Priests of the People's Church may not allow the Church to speak in church at the church of services and church acts.

Paragraph 3. The provision in paragraph 1 shall be 1 shall also apply where the Church is intended to be made available for service at service of :

1) a missionary mission issued from this office and received a pre-ceremony in the church ;

2) a priest of an evangeli-Lutheran sanctuality, or

3) A priest of an evangeli-Lutheran-flooroin outside the realm.

§ 7. The clerks for the defence of the defence have the right to use churches for the services of the services for the defence of rules laid down by the minister for equality and church. The cost of such a use of churches is borne by the treasury.

§ 8. At the request of at least 10 by the members of the congregation who have been voting for the Church, the parish church shall be made available to the church of a church of worship at a church other than that or of the clerks employed at the church.

Paragraph 2. The provision in paragraph 1 shall be Paragraph 1 shall also apply where the Church is intended to be made available to the service of a person referred to in section 6 (1). 3.

§ 9. A member of the parishioners has the right to make the parishion made available to

1) Church acts by a priest in the church of the Church, who are not employed by the Church.

2) marriage or funeral by a priest of an Evangelisk-Lutheran sanctuality,

3) a service at a missionary that has been issued from here and is ordained in the church, or by a priest of an evangeli-Lutheran enclosures outside the realm.

Paragraph 2. The provision in paragraph 1 shall be Paragraph 1 pertains to the use of church for church acts as regards the member of the parish congregation that has requested the church, or on whose behalf such a request has been made.

§ 10. Get an electoral parish access to a church in accordance with section 3, paragraph 3. In the Law on Election Congregation 2, the Bishop shall determine the opinion of the congregation of the Church for the use of the Church by the congregation of the Church.

§ 11. Election members have the right to have the Church in the parish where they are settled, made available to church acts in the chaplain of the Election Congregation.

§ 12. Requests under Clause 8, 9 and 11 shall be submitted to the parishionous Council according to rules laid down by the Minister for Gender Equality and the Church.

Access to the use of churches in the religious communities

§ 13. With the bishop's permission, the Church Council can make the church available to members of Christian communities outside the Church of the Church, and also at a funeral, if the funeral chapel does not exist.

Paragraph 2. With the consent of the bishop, the Church Council can make the church available to members of Christian communities of matrimonial religious belief and the church's blessing in the matrimony of a citizen by a minister from the religious community in question.

Evangeli-Lutheran Frimenigheders and other Christian communities ' firm use of churches

§ 14. The bishop can make a church available to an evangeli-Lutheran sanctuality and its priest to serenity and church acts, if

1) the request shall be made by at least 10 members of the free congregation who live in the provolistic,

2) the teachful and rite of the flock or its conditions shall not prevent the church from being made available ;

3) The church's use of the church will not hinder the use of church by the Church.

Paragraph 2. Before the Bishop takes a position on the condition referred to in paragraph 1. 1, no. Three, fulfilled, shall have the bishop parley with the parishionus council.

Paragraph 3. The bishop will be drawing up after negotiation with the church council, a regulation on the use of the Church of the Church. The Regulation may be amended at any time.

Paragraph 4. The bishop may on the aid referred to in paragraph 1. The conditions laid down by 1 to 3 shall make a church available to another Christian society other than those mentioned in paragraph 1. One and its priest to serenity and church acts.

§ 15. The bishop may withdraw a permit after paragraph 14, if the conditions of the permit are no longer present.

Special provisions concerning the use of churches

§ 16. The Church's services are public.

Paragraph 2. The Committee of the Council shall determine the extent to which there is access to the church outside the time of the church, and whether or not to be paid for its access.

§ 17. The church language is Danish. The bishop may allow the use of foreign languages by services and church acts.

§ 18. In the church, common similarity must be observed, and there must be no action that goes against the specific nature of the space.

Paragraph 2. For services and church actions, the instructions given by the priest shall be complied with.

§ 19. Payment for the use of the church at separate church acts, church meetings and so on shall be laid down in a statute drawn up by the Church Council and approved by the pro-committee. If the Church is not self-provost, the test must be negotiated with the owner of the church, or the person who owns the solution sum at the church tim.

Paragraph 2. For the use of the church after $10 is paid to the merges for the heating, lighting, cleaning, etc., which the church of the congregation of the Church brings. The payment shall be fixed by the Provstian Committee after negotiating with the parish council and the Board of Directors of the Committee.

Paragraph 3. For the use of the church in accordance with section 13 and 14, a payment shall be made as determined by the Provstian Committee after negotiating with the parishionous Council.

Chapter 3

Graduation by the Church of the People's Church

20. (Aphat)

§ 21. (Aphat)

§ 22. (Aphat)

Chapter 4

Complagument and entry into force, etc.

-23. Decisions of the Bishops by the law can be endorsed by the Minister for Gender Equality and Church.

Paragraph 2. The appeal shall be lodged within 4 weeks of the notification of the decision. The Minister for Gender Equality and the Church may disregard the deadline for the period when there is particular reason for this.

§ 24. Chapters 2 and 3 shall not apply to churches in the institution of the criminal institution or the arress;.

Paragraph 2. Chapter 1 and the provisions of section 5 (3). 2, and Section 6 shall apply to churches in hospitals and similar foundations, as well as capsulates, which form part of a residential building in private ownership.

Paragraph 3. The law does not lead to changes in the special rules for :

1) Churches of the churches in Copenhagen and

2) That's right. Petri church in Copenhagen.

Paragraph 4. The Minister for Gender Equality and the Church may decide that so far the rules in force concerning special oversight of the Holmens church, the church of Garrison and the Church of the Church are maintained.

§ 25. The law shall enter into force on 1. July, 1986.

Paragraph 2. The following provisions shall be repealed :

1) Promise the use of churches, sogneband solution, and so on, cf. Law Order no. 151 of 30. 1 May 1961, except section 8 to 11.

2) Law on the Board of Directors, etc., cf. Law Order no. 318 of 26. June 1970.

3) Law No A hundred of 15. May 1903 on the settlement of the tip.

4) Law No 129 of 4. In April 1928, the settlement of the tenth of the devilties of the Sundevilyy.

SECTION 26. The law does not apply to the Faroe Islands and Greenland. The law knows what to do. the device shall be put into force on the Faroe Islands, with the deviations which the particular feroted conditions are attributed.


Law No 347 of 3. April 2013 1) include the following entry into force, and so on :

§ 5

Paragraph 1. The law shall enter into force on 1. July, 2013.

Paragraph 2. (Udelades).

§ 6

The law does not apply to the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

The Ministry of Equal Opportunities and Church, on the 24th. June 2013

Manu Sareen

/ Christina Hyldgaard Jacobsen

Official notes

1) The section 4 of the amendment relates to section 13 (1). 2, the title of section 14, and section 14 (4). 1, no. Paragraph 14 (1) and section 14 (1). 4.