Part II Other provisions

18 Amendment of Church of England (Legal Aid and Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1988.

In section 6 of the M1Church of England (Legal Aid and Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1988—

a

in subsection (2) at the end there shall be inserted the words “ for its approval ”;

b

for subsections (3) and (4) there shall be substituted the following subsections—

3

Where the Business Committee of the General Synod determines that any such petition does not need to be debated by the Synod, then, unless notice is given by a member of the Synod in accordance with its Standing Orders that he wishes the petition to be debated, the petition shall for the purposes of subsection (2) above be deemed to have been approved by the Synod.

4

Where the petition is approved by the General Synod the bishop of the diocese may forward it to Her Majesty in Council.