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The Church Representation Rules (Amendment) Resolution 1994 (Note)

The Church Representation Rules (Amendment) Resolution 1994

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1994 No. 3118

ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND

The Church Representation Rules (Amendment) Resolution 1994

Made (passed by the General Synod with the requisite majority in each House) 29th November 1994

Laid before Parliament 8th December 1994

Coming into force 1st January 1995

In pursuance of the powers conferred by section 7(1) of the Synodical Government Measure 1969[1] to amend by resolution of the General Synod the Church Representation Rules, that is to say, the rules contained in Schedule 3 to the said Measure, as amended by the Church Representation Rules (Amendment) Resolutions 1973 to 1989[2] by the Diocese in Europe Measure 1980[3] and by the Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1991[4] the General Synod hereby resolve that the said rules should be amended as follows:

1. In rule 1, paragraph (2) shall be omitted and there shall be inserted--

"(2) A lay person shall be entitled to have his name entered on the roll of a parish if he is baptised, of sixteen years or upwards, has signed an application form for enrolment set out in Appendix I of these rules and declares himself either--

(a) to be a member of the Church of England or of a Church in communion therewith resident in the parish; or

(b) to be such a member and, not being resident in the parish, to have habitually attended public worship in the parish during a period of six months prior to enrolment; or

(c) to be a member in good standing of a Church which subscribes to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity (not being a Church in communion with the Church of England) and also prepared to declare himself to be a member of the Church of England having habitually attended public worship in the parish during a period of six months prior to enrolment.

Provided that where a lay person will have his sixteenth birthday after the intended revision of the electoral roll or the preparation of a new roll but on or before the date of the annual parochial church meeting, he may complete a form of application for enrolment and his name shall be enrolled but with effect from the date of his birthday.

(3) Where a pers...

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