The Church Representation Rules (Amendment) Resolution 1994 No. 3118

11.  Rule 9 shall be renumbered rule 10 and in that rule, paragraphs (1), (1A) and (1B) shall be omitted and there shall be inserted—

“(1) Subject to the provisions of rule 1(4) and paragraph (3) of this rule, the qualifications of a person to be elected a parochial representative of the laity to either the parochial church council or the deanery synod are that—

(a) his name is entered on the roll of the parish;

(b) he is an actual communicant as defined in rule 54(1); and

(c) in the case of election to the parochial church council, he is of sixteen years or upwards, and in the case of his election to the deanery synod, he is of eighteen years or upwards.”