1970 Ed.]
Church of England Trust (Church Councils) Regulations.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND TRUST (CHURCH COUNCILS)
REGULATIONS.
(Cap. 1014, section 9).
[18th January, 1930.]
1. In these regulations, the expression "church councils" means the bodies constituted under that name by or under the Church of England Trust Ordinance.
2. Every church council shall consist of-
(a) the incumbent or clergyman in charge; (b) the senior licensed assistant clergyman, if any;
(c) such number of lay representatives (who may be of either sex) as the annual church meeting may from time to time decide. Such lay representatives must be actual communicant members of the Church of England or of a church in communion with it and not entered upon the electoral roll of any other church in the Diocese. No candidate may be elected who has not previously consented to serve. The number may be altered from time to time by a resolution passed at an annual church meeting of the church concerned but so that the alteration shall not take effect till the year following the date at which it is made;
(d) co-opted members if the church council concerned so decides not exceeding in number one-fifth of the elected lay representatives and being either in holy orders or actual lay communicant members of the Church of England of either sex or of a church in communion with it;
(e) the two lay representatives elected at the annual church meeting as members of the body of The Trustees of the Church of England in the Diocese of Victoria, Hong Kong.
3. The election of lay representatives to the church council shall take place at the annual church meeting of the church concerned.
4. Lay representatives and co-opted members shall continue in office until the next annual church meeting unless in the meanwhile they vacate office by death, absence of six months, incapacity to act or resignation.
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2 of 1930, Second Schedule.
L.N. 102/70.
Meaning of expression "church councils". (Cap. 1014.)
Constitution of church councils. L.N. 102/70.
Election of lay representatives.
Duration of office of lay representatives and co-opted members.