Paragraph 84 F1

In these Rules—

• “Business Committee” means the Business Committee of the General Synod;

• “the Constitution” means the Constitution of the General Synod as set out in Schedule 2 to this Measure;

• “lay chair”, in relation to a deanery synod, has the meaning given in Rule 26(7);

• “mission initiative” has the meaning given in Part 7 of the Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011 (and, where a mission initiative has more than one leader, a reference to the leader is to be read as a reference to any of them);

• F2“mission initiative roll” has the meaning given in Rule 27A;

• “PCC” means parochial church council;

• “personal data” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018;

• “register of clerical electors” and “register of lay electors” each have the meaning given in Rule 27;

• F3“religious community” means a religious community which comes within the meaning given in the Canons (see Canon DA 1) and is designated by the House of Bishops for the purposes of these Rules;

• “the roll” has the meaning given in Rule 1(1).

A reference in these Rules to something being in writing is to be read with Rule 76(2) (which makes provision about emails).

A reference in these Rules to a numbered Form is a reference to the Form numbered as such in Part 10.