Membership of diocesan synods
8.—(1) In rule 24(1), for the words “three authorities, the bishop, who shall be president” there shall be substituted the words “a house of bishops”, and after rule 24(1) there shall be inserted—
“(1A) The members of the house of bishops shall consist of the bishop of the diocese, every suffragan bishop of the diocese and such other person or persons, being a person or persons in episcopal orders working in the diocese, as the bishop of the diocese, with the concurrence of the archbishop of the province, may nominate.
(1B) The bishop of the diocese shall be the president of the diocesan synod.”
(2) For rule 24(2)(a)(i) there shall be substituted—
“(i)any person or persons in episcopal orders nominated by the bishop of the diocese, other than a suffragan bishop or a person nominated under paragraph (1A) of this rule”.
(3) At the end of rule 24 there shall be inserted—
“(5) No person, other than the chancellor of a diocese, shall be entitled to be a member of more than one diocesan synod at the same time.”