25. Rules 24 and 25 shall be renumbered as rules 30 and 31 and
(a)in rule 30 (as renumbered) paragraphs (1A) to (5) shall be renumbered as paragraphs (2) to (7);
(b)in rule 30(5)(c) (as renumbered) the words “actual communicant members of the Church of England” shall be omitted and there shall be inserted the words “actual communicants”;
(c)in rule 30 (as renumbered) leave out the words “excluding the registrar of the diocese (if so elected)” from paragraphs (4)(a)(iv) and (5)(a)(iii);
(d)in rule 30 (as renumbered) at the end there shall be inserted—
“(8) The registrar of the diocese and any deputy registrar of the diocesan synod shall be disqualified from standing for election to the diocesan synod or from being a nominated, co-opted or ex officio member of that synod.”; and
(e)in rule 31 (as renumbered), in paragraph (2) the words “or is working or residing in the deanery” shall be omitted and the words “other than the co-opted members” shall be omitted and there shall be inserted the words “being the persons referred to in rule 24(2) and not including the persons co-opted to the deanery synod under rule 24(7)”.