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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 contact the General Synod Press Officer.

BILL NO 6

(regarding Sentences of Scripture)

Explanatory Memorandum

In 2001 the General Synod approved, by the requisite majorities, a resolution granting leave for the introduction of this Bill and accompanying Schedule in 2002.

This Bill provides for additional material, namely, Sentences of Scripture, to be included in the new edition of the Book of Common Prayer.

This service will thus be part of the new edition of the Book of Common Prayer.

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 2001 to amend the Book of Common Prayer by including therein Sentences of Scripture as set out in the accompanying Schedule.

WHEREAS a Resolution to include in the Book of Common Prayer the form entitled Sentences of Scripture as set out in the accompanying Schedule was duly passed in full Synod assembled in Dublin in the year 2001 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 2002,

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 2002, and by the authority of the same as follows:

1. In the Book of Common Prayer there shall be included the form entitled Sentences of Scripture as set out in the Schedule.
2. The provisions of section 1 and of 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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