The Church Representation Rules (Amendment) Resolution 1995

7.  In rule 30, paragraph (7) shall be omitted and there shall be inserted—

(7) No person shall be entitled to be a member of more than one diocesan synod at the same time except—

(a)the chancellor of the diocese;

(b)a suffragan bishop appointed to act as a provincial episcopal visitor for the purposes of the Episcopal Ministry Act of Synod 1993 who, in addition, to membership of the diocesan synod of the diocese of which he is suffragan, may be invited by the bishop of the diocese where he resides to be a member of that diocesan synod in accordance with paragraph (2) or paragraph (4)(a)(i) of this rule provided that he shall exercise his vote on a matter referred by the General Synod under Article 8 of the Constitution only in the diocesan synod of the diocese of which he is suffragan.