Amendments to Canon XXI - Impediments of Relationship - Second Reading #045-02-04-03
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- Date
- 2004 March 4-7
- Type
- Resolution 28-03-04
- Seconder
- Rev. Alan Perry
- Text of motion
- That the Council approve for submission to the General Synod, for second reading, a motion to amend Canon XXI with respect to Impediments of Relationship in the form attached to this report. CARRIED #28-03-04
- Notes
- Note: Amendment to Canon XXI - Impediments of Relationship was distributed as Document #045-03-04-03 and is attached as Appendix H.
- APPENDIX H
- Moved By: Ronald Stevenson (Chancellor)
- Seconded By: Bishop Barry Hollowell from the Diocese of Calgary
- Note: The mover and the seconder must be members of the General Synod and be present in the House when the resolution is before the synod for debate.
- BE IT RESOLVED: That second reading be given to the resolution
- That Canon XXI be amended:
- (1) by striking out section 3 of Part I and substituting therefor the following:
- 3. Impediments of Relationship
- a) Notwithstanding the Table of Kindred and Affinity contained in the book of Common Prayer (1962), when making the inquiries directed in section 2 the minister shall, with respect to impediments of relationship, be guided by the "Marriage (Prohibited Degrees) Act", as it was in force on June 1, 2004, which prohibits marriages between persons who are related
- i) lineally by consanguinity or adoption,
- ii) as brother and sister by consanguinity, whether by the whole blood or the half-blood, or
- iii) as brother and sister by adoption.
- b) In addition to marriages prohibited by law, no person may marry another person if they both live, or have previously lived, in the same household and one of them is or has been treated by the other as a child or parent.
- (2) by striking out clause 17 a) ii) of Part III and substituting therefor the following:
- ii) they are related to each other
- iii) as brother and sister by adoption;
- (3) by renumbering clause 17 a) iii) of Part III to be clause 17 a) iv) and by inserting a new clause 17 a) iii) as follows:
- iii) they both live, or have previously lived, in the same household and one of them is or has been treated by the other as a child or parent; or
- EXPLANATORY NOTE/BACKGROUND INFORMATION
- The background for this resolution is found in the report of the Marriage Canon Task Force, particularly at pages 17 to 21. Clause 3 b) is based on an amendment made to the resolution when it was given first reading by the General Synod in 2001. The proposed clause 17 a) iii) makes Part III consistent with that amendment.
- Source: Act 21 of General Synod 2001
- (name of committee, diocese, etc.)
- Submitted by: The Chancellor
- Please submit to the General Secretary
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. General Synod. Constitution. Canon XXI
- Marriage (Canon law) - Anglican Church of Canada
- Marriage - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Consanguinity (Canon law) - Anglican Church of Canada
- Marriage law - Canada
- Stepchildren - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada