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The following draft Bill will be debated during this year's General Synod. For further information on amendments and passage through General Synod please email the General Synod Press Officer.

BILL NO 2

Explanatory Memorandum

In 2000 the General Synod approved, by the requisite majorities, a resolution granting leave for the introduction of this Bill and accompanying Schedule in 2001.

This Bill incorporates material from the Alternative Prayer Book 1984, amended and extended in the light of practical usage and of recent liturgical scholarship.

These services will thus be part of the new edition of the Book of Common Prayer.

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REV CANON RB ROUNTREE
REV CANON MAJ BURROWS
(at the request of the General Synod)

BILL

To carry into effect a Resolution of the General Synod of 2000 to amend the Book of Common Prayer by including therein The Celebration of the Holy Communion also called The Lord's Supper or The Eucharist as set out in the accompanying Schedule.

WHEREAS a Resolution to include in the Book of Common Prayer the form entitled The Celebration of the Holy Communion also called The Lord's Supper or The Eucharist as set out in the accompanying Schedule was duly passed in full Synod assembled in Belfast in the year 2000 by the required majorities, and was duly transmitted to the Secretaries of all Diocesan Synods;

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the said Resolution shall be carried into effect by a Statute;

AND WHEREAS in accordance with the provisions of section 26(1) of Chapter 1 of the Constitution leave was given for the introduction of a Bill in the General Synod of 2001;

BE IT ENACTED by the Archbishops and Bishops and the Clergy and Laity of the Church of Ireland in General Synod assembled in Dublin in the year 2001, and by the authority of the same as follows:

1. In the Book of Common Prayer there shall be included the form entitled The Celebration of the Holy Communion also called The Lord's Supper or The Eucharist as set out in the Schedule.
   
   
2. The provisions of Section 1 of and the Schedule to this Statute shall come into force on such day or days as may hereafter be appointed by the General Synod.

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