The General Assembly, considering it desirable to make more adequate arrangements for the financial support of students for the ministry, enact that: 1 The Training of the Ministry Budget be supplemented to provide a supplement for ministers repaying loans to the Student Loans Company on an annual basis equal …
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The General Assembly direct the College Board to liaise with the Training of the Ministry Committee in its monitoring of the financial needs of students and to explore all possible avenues of additional funding. …
The General Assembly, desiring that the financial contribution of each Congregation may be related to the situation of the Church as a whole, and that Congregational categories and groups reflect expenditure by the Church on stipends, Employer’s National Insurance, and pension provision, direct as follows: 1. There shall be …
The General Assembly authorise the establishment of a fund, to be called the Widows’ Fund and to be administered by, and at the discretion of, the Finance, Law and Advisory Committee, for the benefit of widows in necessitous circumstances of Ministers, Professors, Missionaries and Lay Agents of the Church, …
The General Assembly decree that congregations in receipt of grants from the Church and Manse Building Fund for major projects shall not make appeals to the Church at large without the express approval of the Presbytery of the bounds and the Finance, Law and Advisory Committee. …
The General Assembly, considering that circumstances may arise in which already existing congregations wish to procure either replacement or additional buildings and that there has not been established any regular mechanism for the Church as a whole to assist in such cases, hereby authorise the Church and Manse Building …
The Assembly authorise the Finance, Law and Advisory Committee to arrange for the following changes to the Pension Schemes to be incorporated into the new Schemes currently being drafted by the Church’s professional advisers. 1. The Disability Pension should be based on prospective service. The old provisions will continue …
The General Assembly direct (1) that the budget of the Church Extension Committee shall, in addition to those categories of expenditure arising from charges already assisted by the Committee, have in future three components: Extension Charge Stipends and Related Expenditure; Extension Charge Buildings Expenditure; and Evangelists: (2) that switching …
The General Assembly direct that, subject to Inland Revenue and actuarial agreement and advice as to content and timing, increased benefits be provided by the Church’s Pension Schemes to the surviving spouses of deceased members using the principle that a pension be provided of one-half of the pension or …
1.The General Assembly in order to help meet the additional cost of funding the pension obligations adjust Act XIII, 1977 to the extent that the level of 75% of the National Average Wage as a standard Equal Dividend be reduced to 72% and that this 72% of National Average …