Article 1 Qualifications of Persons to be chosen or elected by Annual Meetings

After rule 9(1) there shall be inserted—

“(1A)

Notwithstanding paragraph (1) hereof, a baptised person who—

(a)

is of communicant status in another Church which subscribes to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity; and

(b)

is in good standing in that Church; and

(c)

is an habitual worshipper and a communicant at the parish church or at some other building licensed for public worship in the parish; and

(d)

is of seventeen years and upwards,

may, with the prior permission of the bishop, be nominated for election as a parochial representative of the laity to the parochial church council.

Provided that at least two-thirds of the parochial representatives of the laity to the parochial church council shall have the qualifications set out in paragraph (1) hereof. ”