Part IV

General and Supplementary Provisions

Supplementary provisions

Patronage (Procedure) Committee.
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1
There shall be a committee, to be known as the Patronage (Procedure) Committee, which shall consist of a chairman and four other members appointed by the Standing Committee.
2
The Patronage (Procedure) Committee shall have power to make rules with regard to any matter of procedure arising under this Measure and in particular with regard to any matter to be prescribed thereunder, except that no rules may be made under this subsection with regard to any matter in respect of which rules may be made by the Patronage (Appeals) Committee under paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 to this Measure.
3
Any three members of the Patronage (Procedure) Committee may exercise all the powers of the Committee.
4
Any rules made by the Patronage (Procedure) Committee shall be laid before the General Synod and shall not come into force until approved by the General Synod, whether with or without amendment.
5
Where the Standing Committee determines that the rules do not need to be debated by the General Synod, then, unless—
a
notice is given by a member of the General Synod in accordance with its Standing Orders that he wishes the rules to be debated, or
b
notice is so given by any such member that he wishes to move an amendment to the rules . . .,
the rules shall for the purposes of subsection (4) above be deemed to have been approved by the General Synod without amendment.
6
The Statutory Instruments Act 1946 shall apply to rules approved by the General Synod under this section as if they were statutory instruments and were made when so approved, and as if this Measure were an Act providing that any such rules shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
S. 38(1)(5): functions transferred (1.1.1999) by S.I. 1998/1715, arts. 1(2)(4), 2, Sch. 1; 1998 No. 1, s. 5; Instrument dated 14.10.1998 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York
Words in s. 38(5)(b) repealed (1.9.1995) by 1995 No. 2, s. 14; Instrument dated 26.7.1995 made by Archbishops of Canterbury and York
1946 c. 36.