Committee on Constitution and Canons
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/official3540
- Date
- 1965 August/September
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Type
- Resolution
- Mover
- Ven. E. Rigby
- Seconder
- Mr. J.W. Graham
- Text of motion
- That Canon IX, Part III be amended as follows:
- 1. That Section 23 (1)(j) (Handbook, p.117) reading - "Four members, not necessarily members of the Synod, appointed by the Budget Committee at its first meeting following a Session of the Synod" be amended by changing the first word "four" to "five".
- 2. That Section 23 (3) (Handbook, p.117) reading - "The Committee shall appoint its own chairman and secretary" be amended by adding, after the word "chairman", the words "vice-chairman".
- 3. That in Sub-Section (6) of Section 23 (Handbook, p.118) the word "Committees," (a misprint) be changed to "Committee".
- 4. That Sub-Section (7) of Section 23 (Handbook, p.188) be amended by adding the words "vice-chairman" following the word "chairman".
- 5. That Section 24(b) (Handbook, p.118) reading - "The securing from each department, board, council or committee of an estimate of its annual revenue and expenditure for the ensuing three years," be amended by deleting the words "three years" and substituting the word "year".
- 6. That Section 25(5) (Handbook, p.119) reading - "The Committee may call for any information deemed necessary for the proper fulfilment of its task," be amended to read "The Committee may call for any information concerning the Budget of a Board or Committee deemed necessary for the proper fulfilment of the Committee's task."
- 7. That Section 26, "The Executive Council" (Handbook, p.119) reading - "The Committee shall submit to the General Synod estimates for the ensuing three years, the Executive Council being authorized, however, to revise such estimates on the advice of the Committee, for the second and third years of the triennium, or for any subsequent years in which the Synod may not meet," be deleted, as this is covered by Section 30 passed in 1962 (Handbook, p.40 (H)).
- 8. That Section 28 (Handbook, p.119) be renumbered as 26 and amended to read - "26. The Treasurer of each Diocese shall remit quarterly as soon as possible after the last days of March, June, September and December and not later than the fifteenth day of the month following, all moneys received by him for or on account of the Apportionment of the said Diocese to the General Treasurer of General Synod."
- 9. That Sections 27, "Consultation and Deputations," 29 "Publicity," and 30 "Report" be added to Section 24 as Sub-Sections (f), (g), and (h) (Handbook, p.118). RESOLVED Message L-13.
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. General Synod. Constitution. Canon IX
- Finance - Anglican Church of Canada