The General Assembly, with the consent of Presbyteries, desiring arrangements regarding the Sustentation Fund be clarified and updated, enact and ordain as follows: Congregations 1.1 A Sustentation Fund Schedule, drawn up by the Mission Board, shall be filled up on behalf of each congregation seeking to be given …
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The General Assembly direct the stipend of £13,200 be continued at present in terms of the variation permitted by Act XII, 1989. The General Assembly approve the continuance of the other categories of salary that are paid at a fixed proportion of the stipend. The General Assembly declare that …
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 …
The General Assembly re-affirm the proposals regarding National Insurance as set forth in Act IX 1976 and direct all Congregations to remit to the General Treasurer the total cost of the National Insurance contributions in respect of their minister, where these are attributable to local supplements. …
The General Assembly ordain that in future congregations in Groups III and IV, upon becoming vacant, or being for whatever reason required to submit a new Schedule, shall not be placed on the Equal Dividend Platform except upon the following considerations and terms:- (1) The congregation shall promise to …
The General Assembly recognising that the maintenance of the ministry and of Gospel ordinances in established charges of the Church is to be regarded as a primordial responsibility for which adequate provision must be made, direct as follows:- A minimum stipend shall be secured for ministers in accordance with …
The General Assembly approve that the minimum contribution required by congregations on the Equal Dividend Platform be not less than half the current Equal Dividend. …
The General Assembly direct that, for the current financial year and for future years, all increased charges authorised by the Assembly to be paid in excess of the stipends of ministers on the equal dividend platform, in the case of congregations on special arrangements, shall be chargeable to the …