The Measure gave the General Synod the power to reform the liturgy of the Church of England.

[2] The report of the Archbishop's Commission, chaired by Owen Chadwick, was published in 1970 under the title Church and State.

It recommended that Parliament should pass the regulation of the church to the General Synod rather than disestablishment.

[2] The sociologist of religion James A. Beckford said there was "a deep cleavage within the Church of England between, on the one hand, the view that the church represented the whole nation and should therefore retain the cultural form in which the nation's ethnic and historical particularity was embodied, and, on the other, the view that the church could only exercise effective influence over the course of events by adapting its liturgy to modern cultural forms".

[1] Roger Scruton said the Measure "was to the great detriment of the power and authority of the Church", and added: "it was this measure that has allowed the creeping disestablishment of the Church, so that 'alternative services' can be laid before the congregation as though it were freedom rather than certainty that they wished for".