Amendment to Constitution - Section 32 - Standing Committees
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- Date
- 1977 August
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Type
- Act 12
- Mover
- Chancellor H.R.S. Ryan
- Seconder
- Chancellor J.H.C. Harradence
- Text of motion
- That the first paragraph of Section 32.1 be amended to read
- "The following Standing Committees shall consist of eighteen members, fifteen to be elected by General Synod, at least twelve of whom are to be members of General Synod, and of that twelve, three of whom are to be members of the National Executive Council, with three others others being appointed by the Primate on recommendation of the Committee. Geographical representation and need for expertise shall be the principal criteria for membership. CARRIED ACT 12
- Notes
- The Chairman of the Doctrine and Worship Committee drew attention to Resolution 8 of their Report. Bishop Short stated that the intent of that Resolution was embodied in the Resolution just passed by the Synod and with the consent of his seconder he withdrew the Doctrine and Worship Committee's Resolution 8.
- [Text of Resolution 8 from Doctrine and Worship Committee Report, page 133 of the 1977 General Synod Journal of Proceedings reads:
- 8. "That Section 32, sub-section 1 of the Constitution dealing with membership of Standing Committees be amended by appending to the first sentence a semi-colon and the words:
- `Except that in the case of the Doctrine and Worship Committee, sixteen of the members shall be elected by General Synod and two shall be co-opted by the Committee'."]
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada - Committees - Membership
- Anglican Church of Canada. General Synod. Constitution
- Anglican Church of Canada. Doctrine and Worship Committee - Membership