ACC-13 Resolution 4
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- Date
- 2007 June 19-25
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Type
- Act 46
- Mover
- Bishop Susan Moxley
- Seconder
- Ms. Suzanne Lawson
- Prologue
- The revised resolution was presented.
- Text of motion
- That this General Synod:
- i. ratify Sections a-d of the proposed constitutional changes for the Anglican Consultative Council, as proposed in ACC-13 Resolution 4; and
- ii. not ratify ACC-13 Resolution 4, Section e) of the proposed constitutional changes for the Anglican Consultative Council. CARRIED Act 46
- Notes
- [Text of Resolution 4 of ACC-13 [i.e. 2005 Meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council] Sections a-d which were passed are as follows:
- The Anglican Consultative Council:
- (a) takes note that the Secretary General has taken appropriate steps to implement and respond to the recommendations of Appendix One of the Windsor Report insofar as they relate to the administration of the Anglican Communion Office, and thanks him for this work
- (b) requests that the Standing Committee of the Council and the Archbishop of Canterbury give consideration to convening a meeting of the Standing Committee at the same time and in the same place as the next meeting of the Primates, and that they facilitate the opportunity for joint sessions of business and consultation
- (c) requests that the Schedule of Membership of the Council be amended to make the members of the Primates' Standing Committee for the time being `ex officio' members of the Anglican Consultative Council in accordance with the text set out in Appendix One
- (d) resolves that the Constitution of the Council be amended by the deletion of existing Article 7(a) and replacing it with the text set out in Appendix Two
- Text of Resolution 4 of ACC-13 [i.e. 2005 Meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council] Section e which was NOT passed is as follows:
- (e) requests that the Schedule of Membership of the Council be amended to provide that the Primates and Moderators of the Churches of the Provinces of the Anglican Communion shall be additional `ex officio' members of the Council, and that in order to achieve appropriate balance between the orders of bishops, clergy and laity in the Council that the representative members shall thereafter be only from either the priestly and diaconal orders or from the laity of the appropriate Provinces as set out in Appendix Three, the execution of this amendment being subject to:
- (i) the Primates' assent to such a change at their next meeting
- (ii) two thirds of the Provinces of the Anglican Communion giving their approval of such a change by resolution of the appropriate constitutional body
- (iii) final amendment (if any) and approval by the Standing Committee in the light of such deliberations
- (iv) such provisions taking effect in relation to existing members of the Council only upon the occasion of the next vacancy arising in the membership.]
- Subjects
- Anglican Consultative Council. Constitution
- Anglican Consultative Council - Membership
- Anglican Church of Canada - Relations - Anglican Consultative Council
- Anglican Church of Canada - Relations - Anglican Communion
- Anglican Communion - Primates