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, in seeking to promote the interests of the Sustentation Fund, and in order to ensure the optimum use of available financial and the human resources, ordain as follows with regard to centrally supported ministries: The General Assembly note that the projected financial burden on the Home …
1. The General Assembly support the proposals for a new remittance system and instruct the Board to take steps to implement these proposals from January 2010. The new system shall have the following elements: 1.1 Congregations with a settled ministry shall remit to central funds the full costs of …
The General Assembly discontinue the remit to the Sustentation and Ministry Committee to visit Presbyteries and congregations whose gross ordinary income falls below £30,000 to discuss the appropriate ministerial arrangements and repeal Act XV, 2005. They empower the Home Missions Board to visit presbyteries and congregations as and when …
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, recognising the claims on the Church of its loyal people in congregations too small to call a minister under current legislation, and concerned about their need of more sustained pastoral attention than is presently available to them, resolve to authorise the appointment of District Ministers in …
The General Assembly enact that in future the entitlement of a vacant congregation to call a minister be limited to two years from the date on which its Schedule is passed by the Sustentation Committee. …
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 …