Membership of parochial church council
6.—(1) In rule 12(1)(a), the words from “including” to the end shall be omitted and after rule 12(1)(b) there shall be inserted—
“(bb)in the case of a parish in the area of a benefice for which a team ministry is established, all the members of the team of that ministry;”.
(2) In rule 12(3), after the word “group”, where secondly occurring, there shall be inserted the words “every priest in charge of any benefice therein and where the area of the group ministry includes the area of a benefice for which a team ministry is established, all the vicars in that ministry”.
(3) At the end of rule 12 there shall be inserted—
“(4) Where two or more benefices are held in plurality and a team ministry is, or is to be, established for the area of one of those benefices, then, if a pastoral scheme provides for extending the operation of the team ministry, so long as the plurality continues, to the area of any other benefice so held, paragraphs (1)(bb) and (3) of this rule shall have effect as if the references to the area of the benefice were references to the combined area of the benefices concerned.”