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CHURCH OF ENGLAND AFFAIRS REGULATION, VICTORIA.
fit, to consider of and determine upon all such matters and things as may concern the affairs of the said Church in Victoria; and the said metropolitan shall be the president of every such provincial assembly, and shall always preside therein personally, or by such bishop or bishops of his province as he may appoint his commissary or commissaries, under his hand and seal for that purpose. And the metropolitan and bishops attending such assembly shall sit and vote as one house, and the clergy and lay members shall sit and vote as another house, and no act or resolution shall be valid to which both houses have not assented; and on every division of the house of clergy and lay members, nothing shall be held to be carried by a majority of such house but that to which a majority both of the clergy and of the laity, voting by dioceses, shall have assented; the vote of the majority of the clergy present and representing each diocese. being taken as the vote of the clergy of such diocese, and the vote of the majority of the laymen present, and representing the laity of each diocese, being taken as the vote of the laity of such diocese; and such provincial assembly may pass rules and regulations for the uniform conduct of and mode of proceeding in all diocesan assemblies, and all rules and regulations so passed shall be valid, subject to such alteration, allowance or disallowance as has been hereinbefore provided with regard to the regulations of diocesan assemblies.
18. Nothing herein contained shall affect the right to nominate or appoint any metropolitan or bishop of the said United Church in Victoria, or any other rights or prerogatives of Her Majesty, save so far as the advowson or right of patronage in Victoria (if any) now vested in Her Majesty may be hereby expressly impaired, diminished, or affected.
19. In the construction and interpretation of the provisions of this Act the word "Bishop" shall include the Metropolitan of the to his metropolitan diocese.
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