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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 regulatious so passed shall be valid, subject to such alteration, allowance or disallowance as has been hereinbefore provided with regard to the regulations of digeesan 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 Province with reference
to his metropolitan diocese.
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CH OF ENGLAND AFFAIRS REGULATION, VICTORIA.
the votes of two or more persons are equal, the chairman, if he be man, may give a double vote, and if he be a clergyman, may give a
for any such person,
chairman shall cause to be delivered to each person elected a certifi- Certificate to be election, and shall sign the minutes of the meeting in token of their given, &c.
; and unless he be the clergyman of the parish or district, shall
m to such elergyman, together with all certificates, subscriptions, and
had been laid before the said meeting, and a certificate of the names,
d addresses of the persons chosen; and the clergyman shall forward
cuments to the bishop to be laid before the assembly at the meeting
lay representative elected as aforesaid shall, before taking part or Declaration to be
ich assembly, sign and deliver to the president thereof a déclaration made.
following:
1. B., whose name is hereto subscribed, do declare that I am a
unicant of the United Church of England and Irelaul, and belong to
her religious denomination."
&c.
all be lawful for the first or any future assembly as aforesaid to make Assembly may itions, acts, or resolutions as it may deem fit, for altering the con- make regulations, *such assembly with respect to the number, election, and qualification members thereof, the manner in which the votes of the clergy and be taken, and the declarations to be signed by the electors or lay as aforesaid (provided that every such lay member shall declare communicant of such Church), and also for determining the mode in, nditions under which such advowson or right of patronage as aforesaid ercised, for the licensing of clergymen by the bishop, for the adjourn- prorogation of such assemblies, and the calling of future assemblies, ode of election of the lay members thereof, and every such assembly 1, alter or vary such regulations, acts, or resolutions.
provisions of this Act in relation to the first convening and holding Provision for cases
ly in a diocese, and the election of the lay members thereof, shall not provided for
force and be acted on until the first or any other assembly shall regulations, &c. provide; and in any case not provided for by this Act, or by the
s for the time being of any assembly, the bishop of the diocese may
ne convening of any assembly in such diocese, and the form and manner eedings preparatory thereto.
opy of the regulations passed at the first assembly of any diocese to Copy of regula- under this Act, and also of the rules framed for any such commission tions to he id, and from time to time of any alterations of such regulations and transmitted to
Archbishop. Il be sent by the bishop of such diocese, duly certified under his hand
as testifying his assent thereto, to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and ? metropolitan; and the said archbishop may, within six months of his ereof, submit the same, with such observations thereon as he may see e, for the consideration of Her Majesty in Council; and Her Majesty, ith the advice of Her Privy Council, may allow or disallow the saine, as ajesty shall seem fit, and the regulations and rules so allowed, and a n of such regulations and rules as may be disallowed, shall be forth- smitted by the archbishop to the bishop transmitting the same, and uch bishop be published in his diocese.
y regulation or rule disallowed by Her Majesty as aforesaid, after the Provisional Acts
in of the disallowance thereof shall have been received by the bishop, valid,
e to be in force; but any act, matter, or thing, done under or in
e with any such regulation or rule before such receipt of the notifica-
e disallowince thereof shall have the same validity and effect as if such
a or rule had been allowed.
soom as a province shall have been constituted in Victoria, it shall be Provincial the metropolitan thereof from time to time to convene the bishops assemblies.
and to require them to convene the members of the several diocesan
8, or such representatives of the same as shall hereafter by any such
1 assemblies be determined, at such time and place as he may deem
fit.
CHURCH AFFAIRS (VICTORIA).
REGULATION and IRELAND In Victoria to provide for the of the AFFAIRS of the said
and LAITY of the UNITED CHURCH OF ENGLAND COPY of an Acr to enable the BistOPS, CLERGY,
Church.
}(Mr. Gladstone.)
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