The General Assembly authorise the Committee on Buildings Maintenance to give at its discretion grants and/or loans from the Church and Manse Building Fund in the following circumstances: (1) where assistance is needed with the cost of a survey required in connection with a quinquennial visitation Buildings Certificate; (2) …
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The General Assembly, desiring that the fabric of churches, halls and manses be preserved from decay, that the cost of repairs be lessened by constant attention to the condition of buildings, and that the church be not burdened by the upkeep of buildings no longer fully utilised, enact that; …
The General Assembly direct the Sustentation, Supply and Buildings Maintenance Committee to issue to presbytery clerks copies of the Recommended Procedure for Quinquennial Visitation and copies of visitation schedules, to receive representations from presbyteries as to how improvements might be made in the recommended procedure and visitation schedules, and …
The General Assembly direct each Presbytery of the Church to set up a Strategy Committee to elaborate and maintain a coherent vision for outreach and development within its bounds, or else to assign that responsibility to some other specific committee of presbytery: such a committee being required to report …
The General Assembly approve of the Board’s proposal for the secondment of missionary volunteers to other Churches and mission societies on the following conditions: i) The candidate will first of all have volunteered for work in the foreign missions of the Free Church of Scotland. ii) The Board will …
The General Assembly in accordance with Act XX, 1985, section V, paragraph 1.4, which requires the salaries of professors to be kept under review, enact as follows: 1.1 All Professors appointed by this or subsequent General Assemblies shall receive a disturbance allowance to reimburse them for expenditure necessarily incurred …
A. The General Assembly note and accept the changes made necessary in the present Pension Schemes by National legislation as follows: (1) Membership is to be voluntary. (However, as the Schemes confer considerable benefits on a non-contributory basis, this is unlikely to affect membership). (2) Preserved pensions, already partially …