The General Assembly, noting that annual statutory meetings of Provincial Synods have been suspended since 2009 General Assembly, and that the reduced number of Presbyteries in the Church has resulted in this tier of Church government becoming largely redundant, and desiring therefore that Provincial Synods be dissolved and removed …
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The General Assembly, with consent of a majority of Presbyteries, and noting that since the suspension of statutory meetings of Synods under the terms of Act 41, Class 2, 2009, the dates of such meetings are no longer meaningful in the Church’s calendar, hereby enact and ordain that: Presbyteries …
The General Assembly ordain that the Synods of the Church be rearranged as follows: 1 The Synods of the Church shall be four in number, viz., Western, Northern, Southern, and North America: 1.1 The Western Synod shall be comprised of the Presbytery of Skye and Wester Ross, and the …
The General Assembly adopt the Report under its first head. In particular, the General Assembly reiterate that the practice of the Church is that in a consolidated charge where there are separate Kirk Sessions and only one settled Minister there can be only one Ruling Elder appointed as representative …
The Assembly adopt the following Declaratory Act :— Whereas doubts have arisen as to the effect on previous legislation of Act IV. of Assembly 1893, anent Representative Elders in Presbyteries and Synods, the General Assembly, for the removal of such doubts, declares as follows :— 1. That Kirk-Sessions, after …
The Assembly finding that difficulties have arisen in the application of Act IV. 1893 anent Representative Elders in Presbyteries and Synods, hereby declare :— “That the first Synod in each year is to be understood as meaning the Synod meeting in the spring of the year. “Farther, the Assembly …
The Assembly hereby resolve that Stations which have a Session duly elected and constituted from among their own Membership shall be entitled to send a Representative Elder to the Presbytery and Synod of the bounds, it being understood that this shall not affect the representation of Presbyteries in the …
The Assembly grant leave to Synods and Presbyteries, if they shall see fit, after due notice given at a previous Meeting, to select one or more places within their bounds other than their usual place of Meeting, at which their ordinary Meetings may from time to time be held; …