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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 6

Explanatory Memorandum

This Bill seeks to expand the provisions for ministry to the sick made in the book of Alternative Occasional Services in 1993 and includes forms for use when the laying on of hands or anointing are used with prayer for healing. It provides forms of Holy Communion for use in hospital or at home, and also a selection of prayers tailored to the needs of the sick and housebound. There is also a Service for Wholeness and Healing for use in parishes when ministry to the sick is offered. Finally extensive provision is made for ministry at the time of death.

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 that part of the Book of Common Prayer entitled The Order for the Visitation of the Sick by substituting, for the above mentioned part of the Book of Common Prayer, Ministry to the Sick and others requiring particular pastoral care as set out in the accompanying Schedule.

WHEREAS a Resolution to amend that part of the Book of Common Prayer entitled The Order for the Visitation of the Sick by substituting, for the above mentioned part of the Book of Common Prayer, Ministry to the Sick and others requiring particular pastoral care 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. In the Book of Common Prayer for that part entitled The Order for the Visitation of the Sick there shall be substituted for the above mentioned part of the Book of Common Prayer, Ministry to the Sick and others requiring particular pastoral care 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. 6

Click here for the Schedule to Bill No. 6

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