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The General Assembly, recognising the need to make use of audio-visual technology in the carrying out of Church business in exceptional circumstances, enact and ordain as follows: General Principles. The General Assembly declare that the following general principles apply for the purposes of this Act. 1.1. The General Assembly …
The General Assembly, noting the Government restrictions on travel and public gatherings due to the COVID19 pandemic, declare that the Assembly shall convene to take up urgent and time-critical business using the Zoom audio-visual technology platform. The General Assembly declare that the Assembly shall convene for one session only …
The General Assembly, 1766, having prescribed certain forms of commissions to members of Assembly, and attestations thereof, and the Assembly, 1766, having, in respect of some defects observed in these forms, made a supplement thereto; the General Assembly, now considering the disadvantage of having what belongs to the necessary …
The General Assembly enacts and ordains, That, in respect of the situation of the Northern and Western Islands frequently rendering it difficult or impossible for the Presbyteries in these Islands to assemble on particular days during the months of winter and spring, it shall be competent for these Presbyteries …
The General Assembly, on the Report of their Committee appointed to collect, revise, and classify, the existing Standing Orders, and to suggest such other Orders as might appear to be necessary, did, and hereby do, ORDER: I. As to COMMISSIONS to General Assembly 1. That all Commissions transmitted to …
The General Assembly declare that the appointment of two Assistant Assembly Clerks of Assembly would be beneficial for the safe and effective operation of the Assembly Clerk’s Office. They further declare that appointments be made to fill any vacancies with such appointments effective from the rising of this Assembly. …
The General Assembly direct that the responsibility for the printing of the Acts of the Assembly be passed to the Assembly Clerks’ Office. They declare that this arrangement supersedes the requirement of The Practice of the Free Church of Scotland, Eighth Edition, Chapter 4, Paragraph 16.5, that this duty …
The General Assembly, taking cognisance of the importance of guarding the Church from risk arising from the decisions of the Courts of the Church, and the importance of giving careful attention to the records of Presbyteries, direct that Presbytery records be submitted annually to the Assembly Business Committee for …
A. AS TO REPRESENTATION OF PRESBYTERIES That all Commissions, transmitted to the Clerk of Assembly, shall be revised by him, in so far as regards their regularity in point of form, and that the Clerk shall prepare a Report on the subject and submit the same to the Committee …