Any elected members of a committee may be elected by the whole synod without discrimination as to houses or by the three houses voting separately. In the absence of any direction by either the synod or the standing committee, they shall be elected by the whole synod.
(1) Every nomination for election to a committee shall require a proposer and seconder who must be qualified electors, but the standing committee may (except in an election to itself) collectively nominate candidates.
(2) Nominations shall be in writing and accompanied by signed evidence of the candidate's willingness to serve, and shall be delivered to the secretary within such period (not being less than 14 days) as he may specify.
(3) If the number of nominations is no more than that of the seats to be filled, all the candidates shall be declared elected.
(1) The names of the candidates shall in any other case be set out on a voting paper.
(2) The voting shall take place at a meeting of the synod.
(3) Each voter shall have as many votes as there are seats to be filled, but shall not give more than one vote to any one candidate. In case of an equality of votes the election shall be decided by lot.
(1) Where a member of a committee is to be appointed or elected by the synod to represent a deanery, no person shall be eligible to be so appointed or elected unless —
(2) Where a person is (apart from this paragraph) eligible to be appointed or elected to represent more than one deanery, he must choose one of those deaneries for the purpose of election or appointment of members of that committee; and he shall not be eligible to be appointed or elected to represent any other deanery.
(3) Where a member or members of a committee are to be elected or appointed by the synod to represent a deanery, the secretary of the synod shall request the chairmen of the deanery synod concerned to convene a meeting of the deanery synod for the purpose of nominating such member or members.
(4) The chairmen or secretary of the deanery synod shall certify any such nomination in writing to the secretary of the synod within the period specified under standing order 82(2); and a person certified as so nominated shall be deemed to have been duly proposed and seconded.
(5) For the purpose of determining the number of nominations and the number of seats to be filled, standing orders 82 and 83 apply to the election of a member or members to represent each deanery as if it were a separate election.
A casual vacancy in the elected members of any committee shall be filled by co-option by the committee.
The conduct of elections to a committee shall be in accordance with any directions of the standing committee.
(1) If the president is a member of a committee he shall be chairman of it if he so elects or, if he does not elect to be chairman, the committee shall, subject to any direction by the synod or the standing committee, at its first meeting elect a chairman from among its own members.
(2) In the absence of the chairman, a member of the committee elected by the members present shall be chairman.
Not less than one third of the total members of a committee shall form a quorum, but a committee may act notwithstanding a vacancy in its membership.
Questions submitted to a meeting of a committee shall be decided by a majority of those present and voting, save that in the case of a equality of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
The agenda of each meeting of every committee, together with a copy of any paper circulated therewith, and a copy of the minutes of each meeting, shall be sent to the secretary of the synod.
(1) Every committee (other than the legislative committee) shall report to the synod at such times and with such procedure as may be determined by the standing committee.
(2) If the standing committee determines that the acceptance of a report shall be moved, the report shall be presented by a member of the committee on a motion "That the report of . . . be received". No amendment to the motion shall be permitted, but if carried it shall not commit the synod to the acceptance of any matter in the report.
Subject to these standing orders and to any directions by the synod or the standing committee, a committee shall have power to determine its own procedure.
The procedure for appointing or electing representatives to serve on any committee or other body not referred to in standing order 77 shall be determined in each case by the standing committee.
(1) If notice is given of a motion, whether or not under standing order 98, which raises any question touching doctrinal formulae or the services or ceremonies of the Church of England, the standing committee shall include it in the agenda of the earliest convenient meeting of the synod.
(2) Except with the permission of the chairman and the consent of the synod, copies of such motion, together with a report thereon by the standing committee, shall be sent to members at least 3 months before it is finally voted on by the synod.
When a reference is received from the General Synod, whether under Article 8 of the Constitution of that Synod or otherwise, the standing committee shall include it on the agenda of such meeting of the synod as the committee may consider appropriate.
Unless the standing committee decide to the contrary for any reason —
The synod, before voting on a reference, may refer any question arising from it to the deanery synods or parochial church councils or parochial church meetings in the diocese for the expression of their views.
(1) When the reference by the General Synod is in the form of a question requiring the answer Yes or No, the question shall be put to the synod as a formal motion in the affirmative sense. No amendment shall be in order and a separate vote of each house shall be taken under standing order 60. If the motion is defeated, the question shall be decided in the negative.
(2) When the reference invites a fuller statement of opinion, a motion containing a draft of such statement shall be moved on behalf of the standing committee, and amendments to such a motion shall be in order.
(3) When all motions under paragraphs (1) and (2) have been decided, other motions arising from it may, if otherwise in order, be moved by any member.
The decisions on motions referred to in standing order 98 and on any related motions not specifically included in the reference, together with the opinion of the president and the number of votes cast in each house, shall be reported by the secretary to the secretary of the General Synod.
The president or the standing committee may invite all or any deanery synods or parochial church councils or parochial church meetings in the diocese —
and to report to the synod by a specified date.