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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 3
Explanatory Memorandum
This provides a version of the service of Holy Baptism passed in
2002 to be in the context of Morning or Evening Prayer. It retains
some of the features of the service for the Baptism of Children in
the Alternative Prayer Book of 1984.
REV CANON RB ROUNTREE
VERY REV MAJ BURROWS
(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 Holy Baptism in
the context of Morning or Evening Prayer as set out in the
accompanying
Schedule.
WHEREAS a Resolution to include in the Book of Common Prayer the
form entitled Holy Baptism in the context of Morning or Evening
Prayer 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:
- In the Book of Common Prayer there shall be included the form
entitled Holy Baptism in the context of Morning or Evening Prayer
as set out in the accompanying
Schedule.
- 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 Amendments to
Liturgical Bill No. 3
Click here for the Schedule to Bill No. 3
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