Constitution, Canons, Regulations, Directives and Guidelines

In 2001 the Committee on the Constitution and Canons, under the leadership of Canon Charles Ferris, began a three-step project on improving our diocesan legislative documents:

1) The Anglican Church Act, 2003 (came into force that year)
2) The Constitution and Canons (adopted in November 2003) a reorganization of existing legislation
3) Reorganization of existing (quasi) legislation (policies, directives and guidelines) which is on-going

Work continues on step three.  Working groups have been engaged in specific sections as appropriate and, at the request of the Bishop, Canon Ferris is continuing to help guide the Project even after his retirement as Chancellor. An ambitious piece of work, step three is proving to be an enormous challenge with various difficulties, not least of all available time and resources of all involved.

Up to date current legislative documents are posted on the diocesan web site at Admin -->  Diocesan Legislation. Since mid 2007, there have been both routine and adopted changes to these documents as linked below.  If you have the Constitution and Canons and/or the Diocesan Handbook ("Red Book") on your bookshelf and wish to keep it up to date, you should apply the changes as outlined below.

In addition, the Diocesan Council Administration Team, as requested by the Council, especially asks that parish incumbents and church wardens take note of the existing policy regarding parish property. That document is found at A-7 Procedures re Sale, Purchase or Renovation of Parish Property.

Constitution and Canons
REMOVE:

• Title and Contents
• Canon SEVEN

REPLACE WITH:

• Title and Contents (revised 07 February 2008)
• Canon SEVEN (revised 07 February 2008)   [Update to Schedule A resulting from Resolution 082 of General Synod 2007]
  

Diocesan Handbook ("Red Book") Regulations, Policies and Directives
REMOVE:

• Contents
• A-17  Signing Authority    [Repealed 07 November 2007]
• B-9 (Guidelines for Ordination in the ACC) is now B-10-2 Appendix D

REPLACE OR ADD:

• Contents
• Regulations (New)
  • 5-1 Parish Forms
  • 6-1 Forms for Memorials
  • 6-2 Register of Memorials, Names, Boundaries and Communities

• A-17 Resolutions Committee Guidelines
• A-20 Rules of Order - Diocesan Council
  
• B-9-1 Ministry Discernment Handbook
• B-9-2 Parish Discernment Committee
• B-10-1 Discernment Leading to the (vocational) Diaconate
• B-10-2 Discernment Leading to Priesthood
• B-10-2 Appendix D 
• B-10 (appendix) Discernment Status Applications
• B-10  (appendix)  Discernment Flowchart
• B-14 Privacy Policy   [Appendix C update regarding the cost to the public of archival record copies]
• C-6  Marriage of Divorced Persons [revised 08 February 2008 adding "divorce documentation #" to Part TWO]

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Geoffrey M. Hall (The Ven.)
Secretary of Synod
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