That Rules of Order and Procedure 5 b) be rescinded and replaced by the following:
"b) Assessors The Prolocutor shall appoint two or more assessors to advise the chairperson with respect to the Declaration of Principles, the Constitution, the Rules of Order and Procedure and the Canons of the General Synod". CARRIED ACT 19
That Rules of Order and Procedure 6 b) be amended to read:
"b) Certification of Minutes Committee - consisting of the General Secretary, the Prolocutor or Deputy Prolocutor, the Honorary Clerical and Lay Secretaries, and a member of the Resolutions Committee. It shall be the responsibility of the committee to certify the accuracy of the minutes of the session of the General Synod and, where necessary, to approve any subsequent corrections to those minutes." CARRIED ACT 18
That this General Synod amend the Rules of Order as follows:
- 1. deleting section 17(d);
- 2. amending section 18(b) to read as follows:
-- b) The three Orders of Bishops, Clergy and Laity shall vote together unless a vote by Orders is required by the Constitution or called for pursuant to the Rules of Order. In order to be passed the motion shall require a majority of the votes cast, and abstentions shall not be counted in determining the majority.
- 3. amending section 18(d) to read as follows:
-- d) When voting by Orders, the vote shall be put to all members of General Synod regardless of the result in any order.
- 4. adding section 20(a.1) to read as follows:
--a.1) Ex officio and other non-diocesan members of General Synod shall vote with the diocese in which they are normally geographically resident for laity, or canonically resident, for clergy.
and this resolution shall come into effect upon Second Reading being given to Resolution A019 (Act 13).
Amendment
Moved by: The Very Rev. Iain Luke
Seconded by: Canon Terry Leer
That Clause 4 be removed from the resolution.
Motion to table
Moved by: Mr. James Sweeney [sic i.e. Sweeny]
That the motion be tabled.
There being no seconder for the Motion to Table, consideration of the amendment continued.
That section 11b) of the Rules of Order and Procedure be replaced with the following:
Except with the consent of the General Synod, the mover of a motion may not speak for more than five minutes and the seconder for three minutes, and each speaker thereafter for three minutes. The mover may speak for three minutes in closing the debate. CARRIED Act 11
That section 6e) and g) of the Rules of Order and Procedure be repealed and that the remaining subsections of section 6 be renumbered accordingly. CARRIED Act 12
That this General Synod amend Canon II (Corporate Seal) and Canon XI (Anglican Book Centre), and the Rules of Order and Procedure by striking out the words "Financial Management and Development Committee" wherever they appear and substituting the words "Financial Management Committee".
That Rule of Order 13 be suspended to permit the introduction of a motion, for First Reading, to amend paragraph 3 (e) of the Declaration of Principles.
That Rules of Order and Procedure 18 a) be amended by adding at the end thereof, the words:
"provided that any member who wishes to abstain from voting for reasons of conflict of interest shall be entitled to abstain on notifying the chairperson of his or her intention. Such abstentions and the names of the persons abstaining shall be recorded in the minutes"; and
that Rules of Order and Procedure 18 b) be amended by adding, at the end thereof, the words:
"and abstentions shall not be counted in determining the majority." CARRIED Act 36
That the Council of General Synod recommend to the General Synod that section 3 c) of the Rules of Order and Procedure be amended to read:
c) During a meeting of the General Synod the Treasurer, overseas, ecumenical and indigenous partners, and representatives of The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund are entitled to be present and, subject to these Rules of Order and Procedure, to participate in any discussion without the right to vote. CARRIED #27-03-04