Section 2.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1The text of ss. 2, 3(1) and Sch. 2 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
1(1)After rule 29(1) (membership of House of Laity of General Synod) there shall be inserted—U.K.
“(1A)For the purposes of this Part of these rules the diocese in Europe shall be deemed to be a diocese in the province of Canterrbury.”
(2)In rule 29(2) (diocesan electors), after the word “diocese”, where first occuring, there shall be inserted the words “other than the diocese in Europe”, and after rule 29(2) there shall be inserted:—
“(3)The diocesan electors of the diocese in Europe shall be such number of persons elected by the annual meetings of the chaplaincies in the said diocese as may be determined by the bishop’s council and standing committee of the said diocese, and lay person who is:
(a)an actual communicant member of the Church of England or of a Church in communion with that Church,
(b)of eighteen years or upwards, and
(c)a person whose name is entered on the electoral roll of such a chaplaincy,
shall be qualified for election as a diocesan elector by the annual meeting of that chaplaincy.”
2U.K.In paragraph (1) of rule 30 (number of elected members), for the number “250” there shall be substituted the number “252” and for sub-pargarph (b) there shall be substituted—
“(b)divide the number so apportioned to each province (less two in the case of the province of Canterbury) among the dioceses of that province (other than the diocese in Europe) so that the number of members to be elected by the several dioceses (other than the said diocese which shall elect two members) are as nearly as possible proportionate to the total number of names certified for them under the next following paragraph, but so that no diocese, other than the said diocese and the diocese of Sodor and Man, shall elect less than three members.”
3U.K.In paragraph (1) of rule 31 (qualification of elected members), after the word “rule 1(3)” there shall be inserted the words “and paragraph (1A) of this rule”, and after that paragraph there shall be inserted—
“(1A)Any lay person who is an actual communicant member of the Church of England or of a Church in communion with that Church and of eighteen years or upwards whose name is entered on the electoral roll of any chaplaincy in the diocese in Europe shall be qualified for election by the diocesan electors of that diocese.”
4(1)After paragraph (1) of rule 36 (appeals) there shall be inserted—U.K.
“(1A)The provisions of this rule (except paragraph (3)), insofar as they confer a right of appeal by any person aggrieved against the result of an election and provide for notice of an appeal and the determination thereof, shall, apply in relation to an election to the House of Laity of the General Synod by the diocesan electors of the diocese in Europe.”
(2)After paragraph (3) of that rule there shall be inserted—
“(3A)An error in the electoral roll of a chaplaincy in the diocese of Europe shall not be a ground of appeal against the result of an election to the House of Laity of the Genenral Synod by the diocesan electors of that diocese unless—
(a)either it has been determined under the rule which applies in that diocese and corresponds with this rule that there has been such an error or the question is awaiting determination under that rule; and
(b)the error would or might be material to the result of that election;
and the allowance or disallowance of a vote shall not be a ground of appeal against the result of such an election unless the allowance or disallowance would or might be material to the result of the election.”
5U.K.At the end of rule 37 (vacation of seat) there shall be inserted—
“(5)This rule shall apply in relation to a member of the House of Laity of the General Synod elected for the diocese in Europe with the substitution for the words in paragraph (1)(d) from “roll” to “aforesaid” of the words “electoral roll of any chaplaincy in that diocese”.”
6U.K.At the end of rule 39 (casual vacancies) there shall be inserted—
“(10)This rule shall apply in relation to the filling of a casual vacancy among the members of the House of Laity of the General Synod elected for the diocese in Europe with the omission of the words in paragraph (5) and (6) “acting in accordance with any directions of the diocesan synod””
7U.K.At the end of rule 43 (powers of bishop, archbishop etc.) there shall be inserted—
“(12)The preceding provisions of this rule shall have effect in the diocese in Europe as if the references therein to these rules were references to such of these rules as apply in that diocese, and subject to paragraph (6) of this rule, the powers of an archbishop under this rule shall, as respects that diocese, be exercisable by the Archbishop of Canterbury.”