3Provision in case of a Minister being suspended.
When, by their final Sentence upon a Libel, a Presbytery or other Church Court shall suspend a Minister from the Discharge of the Duties of his Office for a Term specified in the said Sentence, it is hereby further declared and enacted, that it is and shall be held to be the Right of the Presbytery to appoint a qualified Assistant to discharge the said Duties, and to apportion and fix an Allowance to such Assistant out of the Stipend not exceeding One Half of the whole Proceeds of the Benefice, and which shall be payable so long as such Assistant shall hold and continue to act on his Appointment by the Presbytery ; and such Sentence, when duly intimated to the Heritors or others liable in Payment of the Stipend, shall be equivalent to a legal and completed Assignation by the Minister to such Assistant of the Proportion of the Stipend specified in the Sentence.