THE CRITERIA FOR THE EXPENDITURE OF THE CHURCH FUND RESOURCES

Journal Title: Studia z Prawa Wyznaniowego - Year 2009, Vol 12, Issue 12

Abstract

The Church Fund was established pursuant to Article 8 of the 20 March 1950 Act on the Seizure by the State of the Property in Mortmain, on the Guarantee of Arable Farms to Pastors and on the Establishment of the Church Fund as a form of compensation to churches for the property expropriated from them by the state. The fund, in accordance with the principle of equal rights for churches and other religious associations as worded in Article 25(1) of the Constitution, provides for churches and other religious associations of established legal status in Poland. The Church Fund is a separate budgetary heading in Part 43 of the state budget administered by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration. The Church Fund resources are expended on the following aims: 1)social security and healthcare contributions of the clergy as provided for in relevant insurance regulations; 2)supporting charitable as well as educational activity of the Church and also her initiatives in the area of counteracting social pathologies; the liaison with public administration, churches and other religious associations in this respect; 3)renovation and conservation of sacred buildings of historical value; the subsidies are granted exclusively to the renovation and conservation of sacred facilities of historical value. It is the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration who allocates the budgetary means from the Church Fund. The subsidies are paid under a contract concluded between the minister and an ecclesiastical legal person.

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Monika Piszcz-Czapla

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Monika Piszcz-Czapla (2009). THE CRITERIA FOR THE EXPENDITURE OF THE CHURCH FUND RESOURCES. Studia z Prawa Wyznaniowego, 12(12), 341-352. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-134991