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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 Office.

BILL NO 13

Explanatory Memorandum

During the past five sessions of General Synod a large number of statutes providing new forms and orders of service in both traditional and modern language have been passed. During those years a number of inaccuracies and inconsistencies have arisen between the different orders of service. This bill seeks to correct these as well as to simplify and remove duplication which occurred when presenting separate services in legislation.

In addition it was discovered that there were errors in the provision of readings for festivals etc. Opportunity is taken to re-visit a number of these provisions to harmonize the Church of Ireland provision with that of the sister churches of Wales and England.

LADY SHEIL
REV CANON RB ROUNTREE
(at the request of the General Synod)

Bill

To carry into effect a Resolution of the General Synod of 2002 to correct inaccuracies and contradictory directions and to remove infelicities of diction in the statutes set out in the accompanying Schedule, which statutes will form part of the text of the 2004 edition of the Book of Common Prayer

WHEREAS a Resolution to amend the Book of Common Prayer by correcting inaccuracies and contradictory directions and removing infelicities of diction in the Statutes set out in the accompanying Schedule, was duly passed in full Synod assembled in Dublin in the year 2002, 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 2003;

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 2003, and by the authority of the same as follows:

In the 2004 edition of the Book of Common Prayer, the provisions of the statutes set out in the accompanying Schedule shall be amended in accordance with the said Schedule.

Click here for the Proposed Amendments to Liturgical Bill No. 13

Click here for the Schedule to Bill No. 13

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