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

BILL NO 3

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.

The Calendar, Collects and Post-Communion Prayers will be part of the new edition of the Book of Common Prayer, and will come into effect immediately.

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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 those parts of the Book of Common Prayer entitled The Calendar; Tables and Rules; and The Collects, Epistles and Gospels to be used throughout the year by substituting, for the above-mentioned parts of the Book of Common Prayer, The Calendar and Collects and Post-Communion Prayers as set out in the accompanying Schedule.

WHEREAS a Resolution to amend those parts of the Book of Common Prayer entitled The Calendar; Tables and Rules; and The Collects, Epistles and Gospels to be used throughout the year by substituting, for the above-mentioned parts of the Book of Common Prayer, The Calendar and Collects and Post-Communion Prayers 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:

In the Book of Common Prayer for those parts entitled The Calendar; Tables and Rules; and The Collects, Epistles and Gospels to be used throughout the year there shall be substituted The Calendar and Collects and Post-Communion Prayers as set out in the accompanying Schedule.

 

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