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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 contact the General Synod Press Office.

BILL NO 2

Explanatory Memorandum

This is the traditional language Order for Confirmation, held over in 2001, because of an unsuccessful proposal by the House of Bishops to delete the last rubric in the service.

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

Bill

To carry into effect a Resolution of the General Synod of 2002 to amend the Book of Common Prayer by including therein The Order for Confirmation as set out in the accompanying Schedule.

WHEREAS a Resolution to amend the Book of Common Prayer by including therein The Order for Confirmation as 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:

1. The Book of Common Prayer shall be amended by including therein The Order for Confirmation as set out in the accompanying 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.

Click here for the Proposed Amendment to Liturgical Bill No. 2

Click here for the Schedule to Bill No. 2

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