8The Synod

8 The Synod

(1)  The Synod is at the commencement of this Act constituted in accordance with the provisions set forth in Schedule 4 .

(2)  The Synod may, subject to the Constitution , make ordinances for or with respect to –

(a) amending, rescinding, or replacing the provisions set forth in Schedule 4 ;

(b) the presidency of the Synod;

(c) the number and qualifications of clerks in holy orders to be members of the Synod;

(d) the number, mode of election, and qualifications of synodsmen;

(e) the declarations to be made by synodsmen and their electors;

(f) the manner of taking votes in the Synod;

(g) the division of the Diocese into parishes, cures, or congregations and into other areas of jurisdiction, administration, or operation;

(h) the summoning, adjournment, prorogation, and dissolution of Synods;

(i) the appointment, resignation, and retirement of the Bishop;

(j) the administration of the affairs of the Diocese while the see is vacant or while the Bishop is incapable of acting and has no vicar-general or none capable of acting;

(k) the appointment and licensing of clerks in holy orders to benefices, cures, charges, and offices and the creation, exercise, and abolition of rights of patronage;

(l) the appointment, resignation, and removal of churchwardens and other church officers;

(m) the tenure of any office in the Church and retirement or removal therefrom;

(n) the management of the property of the Church in the Diocese;

(o) the appointment and removal of members of the corporate trustees;

(p) the application of property vested in the corporate trustees but only so far as the trusts under which the property is held so permit;

(q) empowering the Bishop or the Diocesan Council to make regulations in respect of matters in respect of which the Synod may make an ordinance; and