22Ecclesiastical legislation

22 Ecclesiastical legislation

(1)  Nothing in the Rules Publication Act 1953 applies to any canon, rule, or ordinance made under the Constitution , to any resolution of the Synod, or to any regulation made under such an ordinance.

(2)  The production of a written or printed copy of a canon, rule, or ordinance made under the Constitution , of an Act or resolution of the Synod, or of such a regulation certified as provided in this section, shall be evidence unless the contrary is proved, of –

(a) the due making and existence of the canon, rule, ordinance, Act, or resolution; and

(b) the time at which it came into force.

(3)  *[Section 22 Subsection (3) amended by No. 51 of 1985, s. 3 and Sched. 2 ]*For the purposes of subsection (2) a copy to be used as evidence shall have on it a certificate in the following form:

Form

(4)  A certificate for the purposes of this section shall be signed by the Bishop's Registrar, and a certificate purporting to be so signed shall be deemed to be so signed unless the contrary is proved.

(5)  The Bishop shall cause to be kept in his registry a true copy of every canon or rule of the General Synod in force in the Diocese, of every Act, ordinance, and resolution of the Synod, and of every regulation made under such an ordinance, and permit any member of the Church without fee and any other person on payment of a reasonable fee, if he chooses to require it, to inspect and transcribe any such copy.

(6)  No legislative act of which a true copy is required by subsection (5) to be kept as therein provided and in respect of which that subsection has not been complied with may be accorded any force in this State.