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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 3

Explanatory Memorandum

This Bill seeks to reduce the size of the Down Cathedral Board to a more effective size, whilst ensuring that all the groups currently represented on the Board will continue to have an appropriate representation. It will be noted that the Ordinary will be relieved of the obligation of being a member of the Board.

 

 


THE BISHOP OF DOWN AND DROMORE
VERY REV JF DINNEN

Bill

Bill to amend the Statute of the General Synod Chapter VI of 1872 as amended by the Statutes Chapter III of 1883, Chapter II of 1900, Chapter IX of 1922, Chapter II of 1958, and Chapter II of 1985

WHEREAS it is expedient to reduce the number of the members of the Board of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity at Downpatrick;

Be it enacted by the Archbishops and Bishops, and by the representatives of the clergy and laity of the Church of Ireland in General Synod assembled in Dublin in the year 2005 and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

For Section 9 of the Statute of the General Synod Chapter VI of 1872 (as amended by the Statutes Chapter IX of 1922, Chapter II of 1958 and Chapter II of 1985) there shall be substituted the following section:

9 (1) There shall be a Cathedral Board constituted as follows:-

(a) The Dean;

(b) The Incumbent of any Parish, Group or Union of Parishes to which the said Cathedral is from time to time annexed, if such Incumbent be not the Dean of Down;

(c) Two members of the Chapter elected every third year by the Dean and Chapter;

(d) Two lay persons elected every third year by the Registered Vestry Members of the Cathedral out of their own body;

(e) Two lay persons whose qualifications for election shall be the same as that for lay members of the Diocesan Synod, elected every third year by the lay members of the Down and Dromore Council;

(2) Any vacancy occurring in the interval between triennial elections shall be filled

(i) as to those elected by the Dean and Chapter, by the Dean and Chapter

(ii) as to those elected by the Registered Vestry Members, by co-option of persons qualified as in the section provided and

(iii) as to those elected by the lay members of the Down and Dromore Council, by the lay members of the Down and Dromore Council

Any person chosen to fill such vacancy shall hold office until the next triennial elections.

(3) The said Cathedral Board shall meet at such times and under such regulations as shall be determined by its Bye-Laws, and shall be presided over by the Dean, or in his or her absence by one of the Chapter members who is also a member of the Board according to rank, such President having both an ordinary and a casting vote.

(4) A special meeting of the Board shall be summoned by the Dean, or in his or her absence by one of the Chapter members who is also a member of the Board on written requisition of any three members of the Board.

(5) The Board shall have the appointment and removal of the Organist, Choristers and other officials of the Cathedral, and the regulation of their salaries, the control and management of the collections, and generally the arrangement of financial and other matters relating or appertaining to the said Cathedral, not hereby otherwise provided for.

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