Diocesan Boards of Education Measure 1991

2 Subject to paragraph 3 below, the diocesan synod shall by resolution determine whether sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this paragraph is to apply in relation to the elected members of the Board, that is to say—

(a) such number of members as the diocesan synod may determine, not being less than fourteen or more than eighteen, shall be elected by the diocesan synod, and of those members—

(i) at least two shall be clerks in Holy Orders beneficed or licensed in the diocese, and

(ii) at least six shall be lay persons, and

(iii) at least six shall be members of the diocesan synod; or

(b) such number of members as the diocesan synod may determine, not being less than two, shall be elected by the diocesan synod in respect of each archdeaconry in the diocese, the number to be so elected being determined so as to ensure that the total number of elected members is not less than fourteen or more than eighteen, and of the members elected in respect of any archdeaconry—

(i) at least one shall be a clerk in Holy Orders beneficed or licensed in the archdeaconry,

(ii) at least one shall be a lay person, and

(iii) at least one shall be a member of the diocesan synod; or

(c) the elected members shall consist of—

(i) two members elected by the diocesan synod from among its own members, and of those two members one shall be a clerk in Holy Orders beneficed or licensed in the diocese and the other shall be a lay person, and

(ii) one member, whether a clerk in Holy Orders or a lay person, elected by each deanery synod in the diocese from among its own members,

and upon such a resolution being carried, the number of elected members of the Board, the eligibility of candidates for election and the synod by which they are to be elected shall be determined accordingly.