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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 4
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 provides for additional material known as "The
Canticles" to be included in 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 Canticles as set out
in the accompanying Schedule.
WHEREAS a Resolution to amend the Book of Common Prayer by including
therein The Canticles 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 there shall be included The
Canticles as set out in the Schedule to this Resolution.
- 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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