The General Assembly direct all Presbyteries, Boards and Committees of the Church to seek ways of encouraging ministers and elders to take up a cause for which they have vision and enthusiasm and which they would wish to promote at the Assembly. …
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The General Assembly, recognising the advantages to be obtained from the use of modern technology in conducting the business of Church courts, committees and boards hereby enact as follows: 1. Technology such as video conferencing may only be used for the conduct of meetings where all members of the …
The General Assembly endorse the view that Committees and Boards should conduct an audit of the skills and experience required when vacancies arise in their membership and to provide such information to the Nominations Committee. They further instruct the Nominations Committee to make this information available to Presbyteries when …
The General Assembly direct that all minutes of Boards and Committees be signed by the Clerk as well as the Chairman or Convener. …
1. The General Assembly recognising the desirability of making express the immunities and indemnities to which members of General Assemblies and its Commissions, members of General Assembly committees and boards and, in particular, the Trustees serving at any time and from time to time on the Board of Trustees …
The General Assembly endorse the view of the Stewardship and Policy Committee that the use of non-elders as advisers to committees is a constitutionally and biblically sound practice. Where non-elders are appointed to committees as a result of their ex officio positions in the Church they are to be …
The General Assembly enact the following Regulations for the Appointment and Conditions of Service for Clerks of Assembly Committees: 1 All Clerks shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees unless the General Assembly has otherwise decreed. 2 All Honorary Clerks, who are not employees of the Free Church …
The Commission of Assembly resolve that it shall be no longer competent for a dissentient minority of a Committee of Assembly to present a minority report to the General Assembly. If members of an Assembly Committee wish to bring a decision of that Committee under the review of the …
The Assembly approve of the Report of the Committee on the Position and Duties of Deacons, and in accordance with its recommendations — 1. Recommend Presbyteries and Synods, in appointing Financial Committees, to take advantage of the services of Deacons on these Committees. 2. As regards Assembly Committees, they …