The Church Representation Rules (Amendment) (No. 2) Resolution 1984

Statutory Instruments

1984 No. 1040

ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND

The Church Representation Rules (Amendment) (No. 2) Resolution 1984

Made (passed by the General Synod with the requisite majority in each House)

7th July 1984

Laid before Parliament

23rd July 1984

Coming into Operation

1st January 1985

In pursuance of the powers conferred by section 7(1) of the Synodical Government Measure 1969 to amend by a resolution of the General Synod the Church Representation Rules, that is to say, the rules contained in Schedule 3 to the said Measure, as amended by the Church Representation Rules (Amendment) Resolutions 1973 to 1981(1) and by the Diocese in Europe Measure 1980 the General Synod hereby resolve that the said rules shall be amended as follows:

Qualifications of Persons to be chosen or elected by Annual Meetings

1.  After rule 9(1) there shall be inserted—

   

“(1A) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) hereof, a baptised person who—

(a) is of communicant status in another Church which subscribes to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity; and

(b) is in good standing in that Church; and

(c) is an habitual worshipper and a communicant at the parish church or at some other building licensed for public worship in the parish; and

(d) is of seventeen years and upwards,

may, with the prior permission of the bishop, be nominated for election as a parochial representative of the laity to the parochial church council.

Provided that at least two-thirds of the parochial representatives of the laity to the parochial church council shall have the qualifications set out in paragraph (1) hereof.”

   

Citation, interpretation and commencement

2.—(1) This resolution may be cited as the Church Representation Rules (Amendment) (No. 2) Resolution 1984, and the Church Representation Rules (Amendment) Resolutions 1973 to 1981 and this Resolution may be cited together as the Church Representation Rules (Amendment) Resolutions 1973 to 1984.

(2) Any reference in this Resolution to a numbered rule or Appendix is a reference to the rule or Appendix, as the case may be, bearing that number in the Church Representation Rules, as amended by the Church Representation Rules (Amendment) Resolutions 1973 to 1981 and by the Diocese in Europe Measure 1980.

(3) This Resolution shall come into operation on the first day of January 1985.

Approved by the General Synod

W. D. Pattinson

Secretary-General

7th July 1984

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Resolution of the General Synod of the Church of England, which was passed in accordance with section 7(1) of the Synodical Government Measure 1969, amends the Church Representation Rules contained in Schedule 3 to that Measure. Rule 9 of those Rules is amended to make it possible for a baptised person of another Church not in communion with the Church of England to stand for election to the parochial church council with the prior permission of the bishop.

(1)

S.I. 1973/1865, 1980/178, 1981/959, 1650.