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STANDING ORDERS ACT 1993 (WANGARATTA DIOCESE)


(Replacing the Standing Orders Act No. 4, 1950)
No. 15, 1993

AN ACT

TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE STANDING ORDERS FOR THE
CONDUCT OF THE BUSINESS OF SYNOD

Amended: Act No. 1, 1996
Act No. 5, 1998
Act No. 3, 2001



Whereas it is expedient to amend and consolidate Standing Orders for the conduct of the business of Synod

BE it therefore enacted by the Bishop the Clergy and the Laity of the Anglican Church of Australia within the Diocese of Wangaratta duly met in Synod according to law as follows:-

Short Title
Amended:
Act No. 1, 1996
Act No. 5, 1998
Act No. 3, 2001








1. This Act may be cited as "The Standing Orders Act 1993 - 2001".






Repeal

2. The Act mentioned in the Schedule hereto Marked A shall be and the same is hereby repealed except as to every operation already effected or act done under or any obligation already acquired or accrued under such enactment.




Standing Orders of Synod

3. The Standing Orders set out and contained in the Schedule hereto marked B together with any amendments or additions which may from time to time be duly made by this or any future Synod shall be the Standing Orders of the Synod and be binding upon all members for the time being thereof.




Schedule A

Act No. 4, 1950



Schedule B


STANDING ORDERS OF THE SYNOD

THE BISHOP THE CLERGY AND THE LAITY

of

THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF AUSTRALIA

Within the Diocese of Wangaratta








SCHEDULE B

STANDING ORDERS OF THE SYNOD OF THE BISHOP

THE CLERGY AND THE LAITY
of
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF AUSTRALIA

Within the Diocese of Wangaratta


Orders not provided for

Procedure
Order 1, 1950

1. In all cases not hereinafter provided for the Synod shall make such orders as it shall deem expedient.


Quorum


Order 3, 1950

2. Of those members entitled to be summonsed by the Bishop to Synod one third of both the clerical and the lay members shall form a quorum of the synod.


President


Presidency
Order 2, 1950

3. The President shall take the chair at the hour appointed for the meeting of the Synod and as soon as there shall be a quorum the proceedings shall be opened with prescribed prayer.


Adjournment if no quorum


Business Postponed
Order 4, 1950

4. If at the expiration of half an hour from the time fixed for meeting there be not a quorum as prescribed by Standing Order 2 the President shall adjourn the synod to the next day of sitting and if, at the expiration of half an hour from the time fixed for meeting upon that day, there be not a quorum, the President may either adjourn the Synod to the next day of sitting, or may in his discretion adjourn it sine die.


Secretary


Secretary
Order 7, 1950

5. The registrar of the Diocese shall be the Secretary of the Synod and the President may appoint a deputy to act.


Duties of Secretary


Secretarial Responsibilities
Orders 8, 9, & 10 1950

6. The Secretary shall prepare the Notice Paper for each day of each session of the synod and take minutes of the proceedings and voting of the synod which minutes shall if correctly entered be signed by the President.


7. During the session of the synod the Secretary shall have charge of the record of all Bills passed by the synod and of all other documents appertaining to the business of the Synod which at the conclusion of the session shall be deposited in the Registry of the Diocese.

8. The minutes shall be open at all reasonable times for the inspection of any member of the synod or of any person authorised in writing by any member of the synod.

Order of business for the first day of each Session of the synod:


Notice Paper
for first day
Order 12, 1950


























































Amended
Act No. 3, 2001

9. (a) Prayers

(b) Requests for leave of absence by any member of synod to be made.

(c) Requests for leave for each supplementary Representative to sit to be made; each lay representative (whether original or substituted) shall sign the Declaration and the Attendance book once during the Session of the synod.

(d)* The appointment of the Deputy Secretary, the Chairman of Committees, Deputy Chairman of Committees and the Scrutineers shall be made by the President.

(e) The synod shall resolve what clerical or lay persons other than the members of the synod may be entitled to take a seat on the floor of the house with power to speak but not nominate or vote.

(f) The Synod shall resolve the hours the synod shall meet during the session thereof.


(g) The President shall deliver his address.

(h) The Registrar shall table:

(i) The Bishop’s mandate convening the Synod

(ii) The Bishop’s mandate for elections

(iii) Minutes of proceedings of the Bishop in Council

(iv) Financial statements for the preceding year

(v) Copy of the Balance Sheet of the Australian Clergy Provident Fund any other provident funds appropriate to this diocese and the Long Service Leave Fund for the current year

(vi) The report of the Council of the Diocese

(vii) His report on the financial statements for the preceding year

(viii) The report of each Committee, Board, Union, Auxiliary and Society which is required to report to the Synod

(i) Adoption of reports

(j) Petitions

(k) Questions

(l) Notices of motion for which leave of Synod is to be there and then sought

(m) Orders of the Day


(n) Motions by request of the Council of the Diocese
(o) Motions which shall have been received by the Registrar in accordance with the requirements of Order 10(a) hereof


* This order applies to the first Session only of the Synod

Notices


Amended
Act No. 3, 2001





Notices of Motions & Questions
Orders 11, 12, 15, 18, 19 & 26, 1950

Amended
Act No. 3, 2001

10.(a) No member shall bring any subject under consideration of the Synod not requiring the leave of Synod except in pursuance of a prior Notice given in writing to the Registrar at least 14 days prior to the date of commencement of the first day of each session of Synod. Each notice shall be in duplicate and signed by the Member and Seconder. After a Notice of Motion has been given it may not be altered without the leave of the Synod.

(b) Where a Member is seeking leave of Synod to move a Notice of Motion as part of the Orders of Business of the day such Notice shall be in duplicate and signed by the Member and Seconder. At the time of giving a Notice the Member shall read it aloud to the Synod and if leave of Synod is granted each copy shall be handed to the Secretary.

Order of business for the second and subsequent days of each Session of the Synod

Notice Paper for subsequent days
Order 12, 1950







Amended
Act No. 3, 2001
11. (a) Prayers

(b) Answers to questions

(c) Petitions

(d) Questions

(e) Notices of Motion for which leave of Synod is to be there and then sought


(f) Reports

(g) Orders of the Day

(h) Motions according to Order arranged by the Secretary

Orders of the Day and Formal Motions


Orders of the day
Orders 12, 13 &
14, 1950

12. (a) Orders of the Day shall provide for the despatch of legislative business or other matter which the synod has ordered to be taken into consideration on a particular day or at a particular time in the order on which they stand on the notice paper unless the Synod order to the contrary; at the morning and afternoon sittings all Orders of the Day shall take precedence over motions of which notice has been given and unless otherwise ordered by Synod any debate in progress when synod adjourns in the afternoon shall in the evening be postponed until the Motions standing on the notice paper shall have been disposed of.


Formal Motions

(b) Before the Orders of the Day at the commencement of each sitting or Motions are proceeded with the President shall call the Motions on the Business Paper and any motion may be taken as a Formal Motion unless objection be taken thereto by the word “Object” being called by a person other than the Mover and Seconder and such motions on being declared formal shall be forthwith put without debate.


Petitions

Orders 70-78, 1950

13. Petitions may be in writing or in typescript and must conclude with the prayer of the Petitioners, and be duly signed by the Petitioners and by no one else.


14. No petitions shall be presented after the Synod shall have proceeded to the Orders of the Day.


15. Petitions shall not be received which, in the opinion of the President, are disrespectful or couched in offensive language, or which have been altered by erasure or interlineation.


16. A Member presenting a Petition must make himself acquainted with its contents, and affix his name at the beginning thereof, and shall state from whom it comes, its material allegations and its prayer which shall be a the end thereof any may require that it be read by the Secretary. The only question that shall be entertained by the Synod on its presentation shall be that “That the Petition be received”.



17. No letters affidavits or other documents shall be attached to any Petition.

Questions


Questions may
be put
Orders 15, 16
& 17, 1950

18. (a) After the time for presenting Petitions, questions may be put to the President relating to any motion or matter connected with the business of synod or any committee or board of the Synod or any committee or board established by or under an Act or resolution of Synod.

(b) In putting any such questions no statement of fact shall be made without leave of Synod and no argument or opinion shall be offered and no inference or imputation shall be made.

(c) A reply to a question shall be in writing and shall be recorded in the proceedings of Synod.

(d) In putting a question or in answering a question there shall be no debate.


Rules of Conduct and Debate

Speaking
Order 43, 1950

19. Every member shall stand while speaking and address the President. When two or more members rise to speak the President shall call upon the member who in his opinion first rose in his place.



President voting and debating
Orders 5, 6 &
32, 1950

20. The President may take part in debate without leaving the chair, and may vote on any question; in the case of an equality of votes he shall have a casting vote except in the case of a vote by Houses.



Order 48, 1950

21. When the President rises in his place all other Members shall be seated, and continue sitting until he resumes his seat.

Order in Synod
Order 46, 1950

22. All Questions of Order shall be decided by the President, and such decisions shall be final unless altered by a vote of the Synod forthwith. Any Member may speak to a Point of Order.


23. The President shall confine each speaker to the subject matter of debate, and it shall not be in order for a Member to interrupt a speaker except through the President. This Standing Order shall be applied to Motions of Adjournment.



Order 47, 1950

24. (a) The President shall call to order any Member who in his opinion is digressing from the subject matter of the Question under discussion, or who shall make personal reflections on, or impute improper motives to, any member.

(b) If any Member shall persist in such irrelevant remarks, or shall, in the judgement of the President, be guilty of disorderly conduct, the President may call upon him to make apology, whereupon if he refuse, he shall withdraw, and the Synod shall take his conduct into consideration and may suspend or otherwise deal with him as the Synod thinks fit.

Question of sufficient debate

25. (a) At any time during the debate any Member may without notice and without debate ask “Whether in the opinion of the President the Question should now be put” whereupon, or of his own act, the President may inform the Synod that in his opinion the Question has been sufficiently discussed.

(b) If after such expression of opinion by the President a Motion be made “That the Question be now put” the Question on such Motion shall then be put without further debate and if such Motion be carried the President shall forthwith put the original question to the vote. Provided that, whenever it is decided that any Question shall be put the mover of the original Motion shall have a right of reply.



Debate by Houses

26. At any time during debate two Members of either House may hand to the President (or Chairman if the Synod be in Committee) a written request that it be ascertained whether or not their House desires an opportunity to consider the matter in debate separately. The President or Chairman as the cas may be shall as soon as may be convenient call upon one of the signatories to move that the matter be considered separately by his House upon which Motion only Members of the House concerned shall vote. If the Motion be carried the President or Chairman shall thereupon adjourn the debate until the House concerned through a spokesman therefor shall have notified him that it has concluded its separate consideration or until a time fixed by the President or Chairman which shall in his opinion be sufficient to provide an opportunity for separate consideration by the House concerned whichever shall first occur and thereupon the House concerned shall fix a time and place for its separate meeting. If the Motion be rejected the debate shall continue.



Personal explanation
Order 44, 1950

27. A member may give a personal explanation relating to any matter concerning himself although there be no question before the Synod but such matter shall not be debated.




Length of Speeches


28. (a) On any motion the mover shall not speak for more than ten minutes and the seconder shall not speak for more than five minutes and any other member speaking to the motion and the mover speaking in reply shall not speak for more than five minutes.


Order 45, 1950

(b) Except when in Committee of the whole Synod no Member shall be allowed to speak more than once on the same Question, except in explanation. Provided that the mover of any Motion, other than a Motion for an amendment or a Motion that the Question be now put or move the previous Question shall be allowed the right of reply, and after the reply the Question shall be put forthwith.


Motion or Amendment not seconded

Orders 21, &
57, 1950

29. Except in Committee, no Motion or Amendment unless seconded shall be further discussed, nor shall any entry thereof be made in the Minutes except with the leave of Synod.


Motion - Formally Seconding

30. Any Member formally seconding a Motion shall not be thereby considered as having spoken to the Question.


Motion - pursuant to Notice

31. A Motion shall not be considered by the Synod unless there has been compliance with the provisions of Standing Order 10.


Motion - without Notice

32. A Motion, however, may be made or a Question may be asked without previous notice by leave of the majority of the Members then present.



Order 23, 1950

33. On presentation of any document except a petition a motion may be made without Notice that it be printed and a day appointed for its consideration.


Motions - Lapsed

34. Motions shall be taken in the order in which they stand, and if not then made, unless postponed by leave of the Synod, shall be considered as having lapsed.


Motions - put by the President


Orders 20 & 42, 1950

35. When a Motion has been made and seconded, a Question thereupon shall be proposed by the President, and at any time before the close of the debate any Member may move an amendment. No Member may speak to any question after the same has been put by the President.







Motions Involving Expenditure

36. A notice of motion that will directly result, if passed, in expenditure from the funds available to the Synod shall not be included on the notice paper for a day in a session unless it sets out, or is accompanied by a paper setting out:


(a) the proposed source of funding; and

(b) an itemised statement of expected income and expenditure that will result from the passing of the motion, being, if the expenditure will continue for more than one year, the expected income and expenditure per year.


Amendments


To be seconded and copies delivered
Order 36, 1950

37. No amendment (except of a verbal character) shall be put from the Chair or

entered in the minutes unless it be seconded and two copies thereof shall be
handed to the Secretary.


38. When an amendment is proposed it shall be in the following form:

Procedures
Orders 35, 37-40, 1950

(a) When it is intended entirely to supersede the original Motion by another Motion on the same subject matter, the form in which the amendment shall be made by the mover shall be -

“That all the words after the word “that” of the original Motion be omitted with a view to the insertion of the following words in lieu thereof (words of the amendment)”.

(b) When the object of the amendment is to omit certain words only, but not all the words of the original Motion, the form shall be -

“That the word ----, or the words ---- ------, or all the words from ------ to ----- inclusive, or all the words after the word ----- be omitted with the view of substituting the following word or words in lieu thereof (the word or words of the amendments)”.

(c) The Question before the synod in either case shall be put by the President thus -


“That the word or words proposed to be omitted be so omitted.”

(d) If it be decided in the negative, such word or words shall be retained. If it be decided in the affirmative, then the Question shall be put by the President -


“That the word or words proposed to be inserted be so inserted.”

If the latter Question be negatived, other words may be moved until the Synod shall agree.

(e) The amended motion shall formally be submitted in its entirety to the vote of the Synod.

(f) An amendment proposed shall be disposed of before another amendment to the original question can be moved, but shall not be withdrawn except by leave of Synod.



(g) No amendment shall be proposed on any part of a question after a later part has been amended or after an amendment on a later part has been proposed unless such proposed amendment has by leave of the Synod been withdrawn.

(h) Amendments may be proposed to a proposed amendment as if such proposed amendment were an original Question.


Previous Question

39. When it is desired to avoid or postpone a decision on any question, it shall be competent for any Member to move the previous question.

When the previous question is moved it shall not stop debate which shall continue, but no amendment may be moved until the previous question has been disposed of by the Synod.


The previous question shall be put by the President -

“That the Motion be not put.”

The previous question shall not be moved in Committee.

Question may be superseded

Order 24, 1950
40. A question may be superseded -

(a) By the adjournment of the Synod on the Motion of a Member “That the Synod do now adjourn.”

(b) By the Previous Question, viz. “That the Motion be not put”, being proposed and affirmed.


(c) By a motion “That the Synod proceed to the next business”.

(d) On notice being taken and it appearing that a quorum is not present.

(e) By the Closure that is to say a Motion “That the question be now put” upon which such motion shall be put forthwith and decided without amendment or debate and if passed the original motion shall be put forthwith Provided that the mover of the original motion shall have the right of reply.


Motions - how resolved


Method of Voting
Order 27, 1950

41. Unless a vote by Houses is required by Section 2 of the Church Constitution Act a Question may be resolved by the majority of the voices “aye” or “no” or by a show of hands, and the President shall state which side has the majority; but on demand being made by five Members a division shall take place. In the event of an equality of votes the provisions of Order 20 apply.


Votes by Houses

42. (a) A vote by Houses may be required on demand by not less than Five Members of the House of Clergy or by five Members of the House of Laity.


(b) In the event of a vote by Houses being required all questions shall be put by the President or Chairman or presiding Member first to the House of the Laity and then to the House of the Clergy and no question shall be deemed to be resolved in the affirmative by synod unless it be so resolved by a vote of the majority of those present in each of the two Houses and by the vote of the Bishop.

(c) Any five Members of the House of Clergy or the House of Laity may demand a division in their House.


Inserted:
Act No. 5, 1998

(d) Any five members of the House of Clergy or of the House of Laity may demand a ballot in their house. Such ballot shall be conducted in that house in accordance with the requirements of Order 42A.



Inserted:
Act No. 5, 1998
42A. (a) A question may be decided by ballot if -

(i) the President so determines; or
(ii) a majority of the Synod voting as a whole on a motion
“That the question be decided by ballot” so decides

(b) A question referred to in paragraph (a) (ii) hereof may be moved at any time prior to the question being put.


(c) A ballot shall be conducted in the following manner:-

(i) A single piece of paper of one colour for members of the house of laity and of a different colour for members of the house of clergy shall be handed to each member of the Synod present by such person or persons as the President shall direct;

(ii) No member who has received a ballot paper may leave the Synod until directed by the President;

(iii) When the President is satisfied that all ballot papers have been distributed, he shall direct that no member may enter the Synod unless allowed by him;

(iv) A member voting in favour of the motion shall write “Yes” on the paper and a member against the motion shall write “No” on the paper. A paper which contains neither “Yes” nor “No” shall be treated as informal and shall not be counted for or against.

(v) All ballot papers distributed shall be returned in such manner as the President shall direct, and when satisfied that all papers have been returned the President may direct that members may enter or leave the Synod;

(vi) The President shall appoint tellers who forthwith shall count the votes, if necessary in houses, for and against and any informal votes, and one of the tellers shall inform the President of the result which then shall be announced by the President.







Motions - withdrawal of


Order 22, 1950
43. Any Motion may be withdrawn by leave of the Synod.

Motions previously dealt with, etc.


Order 28, 1950

44. No subject which shall have been under the consideration of the Synod and disposed of, shall be again brought forward during the Session.


45. No question shall be entertained which in the opinion of the President is substantially the same as one which has been resolved during the same Session.


Count out

46. If at any time during the progress of business, on any Member moving that the synod be counted, there be not a quorum, the President shall adjourn the Synod until there be a quorum present.


47. A debate interrupted by such counting out shall be resumed when a quorum be present at the point where it was interrupted.


Adjournment - of Synod, or Debate

48. A Motion for adjournment of either the synod, or the debate, may be made at any time; provided that no member shall be interrupted thereby while speaking.


Motions - Members to conclude with

49. When no Question is before Synod, no Member shall be at liberty to speak unless he intends to conclude by making a Motion; and any Member desiring to submit a Motion of which notice has not been given, shall, when called upon by the President, forthwith state what Motion he intends to make.



Divisions


Voting, rectification of errors
Orders 27, 29, 30, 33, 34, 41 & 56, 1950

50. When a Division is demanded whether the Synod by voting together or by Houses, the President or the Chairman if the Synod be in Committee shall put the Question, and, after the lapse of two minutes, shall direct the Members then present to divide, and the “Ayes” to the right, the “Noes” to the left of the chair, and shall appoint two tellers from each side, and shall declare the number of votes on each side from a count of the Members voting to be given him the tellers. The President or chairman shall declare the Question carried or lost as the case may be. Where the Synod is voting together a majority will carry the Question. When the Synod is dividing a Member may speak to a point of Order by permission of the President but not otherwise. In committee it shall not be necessary to take the votes of the Clergy and Laity separately. In case of confusion or errors concerning the numbers reported unless the same can be otherwise corrected the synod will proceed to another division. If the numbers have been inaccurately reported the Synod on being afterwards informed shall order the minutes to be corrected.


51. Members may leave or enter the Synod during the two minutes which elapse before the Division, but after the President commences to direct the Members to divide, no Member shall leave or enter the Synod until the Division is concluded; and after the appointments of tellers no member, except the tellers, shall change his place from one side of the Chair to the other. On a division every member present must vote. In the event of an equality of votes the provisions of Order 20 apply.


Standing Orders - suspension of

52. Any Standing Order of the Synod may at any time be suspended on Motion with notice. Any Standing Order may also be suspended on Motion without notice, unless ten members object.


Quorum Procedures etc - Committee of the whole


Order 53, 1950

53. In the committee of the whole synod, the quorum shall be the same as the quorum of the Synod.



Order 51, 1950

54. The Committee of the whole synod shall be appointed by the Resolution “That this synod shall resolve itself into Committee.”



Orders 60 & 61, 1950

55. If, during the progress of business in committee, notice be taken that there is not a quorum, the Chairman shall leave the chair and report the same. If when reported that a quorum is present the Synod shall again resolve itself into committee without the question being put.



Order 57, 1950
56. A Motion made in Committee need not be seconded.


Orders 55 & 58, 1950

57. Every question in committee shall be decided by a majority of votes and in the case of an equality of votes the chairman shall give a casting vote. However when there comes a question between the greater or lesser sum of the longer or shorter time the least sum and the longer time shall first be put to the question.

Order 56, 1950

58. On any division in committee the votes of the Clergy and Laity shall be taken jointly.




Order 59, 1950
59. In committee members may speak more than once to the same question.

Adjournment of Committee



Order 54, 1950

60. A Motion of adjournment of Committee shall be “That the Chairman leave the chair, report progress, and ask leave to sit again.” On such Motion being carried the chairman shall report to the Synod and ask leave accordingly.


Standing Orders to apply in Committee



Order 49, 1950

61. The Standing Orders shall, so far as applicable, be observed in committee, and the chairman shall have the same authority as the President for the preservation of Order.

Absence of Chairman of Committees

62. In case of the absence of the chairman of Committees the Deputy Chairman of Committees shall act in his place; should neither be present a member of the Synod whom the Committee shall appoint shall act.


Select Committees


Numbers & Selection
Orders 62-64, 1950

63. Every Select Committee shall consist of not less than five nor more than ten members of the Synod and the Notice of Motion appointing such committee shall state the number of Members it is proposed should serve on such committee and contain the names of the Members proposed to serve thereon. It shall be in the power of any Member of the synod to propose the name or names of any other Member or Members to serve on such committee. If the nominations are not in excess of the number of persons required to be elected the President shall declare the persons nominated to be duly elected, but whenever they are in such excess all the names proposed shall form a select list out of which such committee shall be elected by ballot, such ballot to be taken on such day and time as the Synod shall appoint.



Assent to serve
Order 63, 1950

64. Whenever such a ballot is taken, the persons who shall be reported by the Scrutineers appointed by the President to have the largest number of votes shall be declared by the President to be duly elected. Any voting paper containing more names than the number of vacancies to be filled shall be informal. provided that if two or more shall have received an equal number of votes, rendering the issue of the election doubtful, the President shall thereupon give a casting vote.



Adding to and substitution
Order 65, 1950

65. Notice of Motion may be given for adding to or substituting Members of any Select Committee which may have been appointed, and such notice shall specify the names of such members. Notice of Motion may also be given for discharging a Select Committee.



Quorum
Order 66, 1950
66. In Select Committees, three shall form a quorum.


Chairman
Order 67, 1950

67. Every Select Committee shall before proceeding to business elect a Chairman, who shall prepare and sign the report of the Committee. The Chairman shall have a deliberative vote and when the votes are equal a casting vote.




68. It shall be the duty of a Member naming a Select Committee or proposing to add or substitute Members thereon, to obtain previously the assent of the Members whom he proposes to serve on such Committee.






Report of Orders
68 & 69 1950

69. Select Committees, unless specially appointed to report to the Session of the Synod then sitting shall have power to sit during the recess and report to the Synod in the following Session or to the Council of the Diocese between Sessions. Every report of a Select Committee shall be in writing and signed by the Chairman.


Election
Order 64, 1950
Precedence
of report

70. Motions for appointment of Select Committees who are to report at the same Session of Synod, shall become Orders of the Day, and take precedence over all other business.


First meeting

71. The mover of the Motion for the appointment of a Select Committee, if a member thereof, shall fix the time for the first meeting of the Committee; if the mover be not a member the President shall fix the time.


Bills and Acts

Questions for Clarification
Amended:
Act No. 1, 1996

72. All Acts of the Synod which are intended to have legislative authority shall be brought before the Synod and debated on and passed according to the following rules and forms and such proposed Acts while under consideration by the Synod shall be styled “Bills” during the progress thereof through the Synod.



73. Every Bill

(a) which is on the notice paper as an Order of the Day shall be brought in by a member and motion proposed and question put that the synod agrees to such a Bill in principle: or

(b) which is not on the notice paper as an Order of the Day or is thereon but is in a different form shall be brought in and motion proposed and question put that leave be given to some member to bring in such Bill and immediately on leave being given the Member named shall bring in such bill and motion proposed and question put that the synod agrees to such Bill in principle.

(c) At the time of moving a motion that a Bill be approved in principle the mover may seek leave of the Synod to introduce the Bill with amendments to the Bill as circulated to each member of the synod. If such leave is given the Bill as so introduced shall be the Bill to be debated.



Order 79, 1950

74. Immediately after the mover has presented such Bill and the seconder of the Motion has spoken thereto unless he has reserved his right to speak at a later time the President for the purpose of clarification shall inquire whether any member wishes to ask any questions of either the mover or the seconder of the motion. any member may then ask such question which may thereupon be answered by the mover or seconder; further such questions may be asked and answered until the President announces that the debate shall proceed. A person who has asked or answered a question during this period shall not, for the purpose of the ensuing debate, be deemed to have spoken on the motion by virtue only of having asked or answered the question.



Presentation of Bill
Orders 80-84, 1950
Amended:
Act No. 1, 1996

75. After the President shall have announced that the debate shall proceed, the general principle of the Bill shall be debated. On conclusion of the debate on the Bill the question shall be put “That this motion be now agreed to”. If this motion be decided in the negative the Bill shall lapse.



Amendments
Order 85, 1950

76. Amendments may be moved to such question by leaving out “now” and adding “three months hence” (or any other time) or the Bill be negatived.


Order 80, 1950
Amended:
Act No. 1, 1996
Reference to Committee
Order 87, 1950
Amended:
Act No. 1, 1996

77. Should the motion without amendment be agreed to the President shall thereupon enquire whether any member wishes that the Bill be referred to a Committee of the whole Synod or to a Select Committee.


Committee of
the Whole
Order 88, 1950
Amended:
Act No. 1, 1996

78. Should that question be answered by any member in the affirmative the member presenting the Bill shall move and the question shall be put “That I do now leave the chair and that the Synod resolve itself into a Committee of the whole to consider the Bill” or “That the Bill be referred to a Select Committee to be appointed”.


79. Amendments may be moved to the question for the President to leave the chair by leaving out all the words after the word “That” in order to add the words “this Synod will on this day three months hence resolve itself into a Committee“ (or other time).


80. In a committee of the whole Synod the question shall be put by the Chairman “That the title and the preamble (if any) be postponed” which being agreed to each clause or sub-clause separately or a group of clauses or sub-clauses shall be considered by the Committee seriatim or in a manner which , in his opinion, the chairman considers will best facilitate the consideration of the clauses of the Bill that are proposed to be amended”.



Orders
86 & 91, 1950

81. Any amendment may be made to a clause provided the same be relevant to the subject matter of the Bill or pursuant to any instruction of the Synod but not otherwise.



Limitation of amendments
Order 92, 1950

82. When a bill is for the purpose of amending any clause of an existing Act no amendment shall be proposed to be made in any other clause of such Act unless such amendment be consequential.



Order 93, 1950

83. A question shall be put that each “clause or subclause stand part of the Bill” or “as amended shall stand part of the Bill”.



Postponement
Order 94, 1950
84. Any clause or sub-clause may be postponed.


Amendments
Order 89, 1950
Order 95, 1950
Amended:
Act No. 1, 1996

85. After every clause and schedule has been agreed to and any clauses added which are within the title to the bill or pursuant to any instruction of the Synod the preamble is considered and if necessary amended and the questions “That this be the preamble of the Bill” and “That this be the title of the Bill” are separately put in that sequence.

Preamble
Order 90, 1950
Amended:
Act No. 1, 1996
Chairman’s Report
Order 96, 1950

86. The Bill having been fully considered the Chairman shall put the question “That I do report that the Bill has passed with (or without) amendment”.



Order 54, 1950

87. Should the Committee wish to adjourn its deliberations the Chairman shall put the question “That I do report the Bill and seek leave to sit again”.


88. If the Synod refers the Bill to a Select committee further consideration of the Bill shall be deferred until the Select Committee has delivered its report.







Passing
Order 105, 1950
Amended:
Act No. 1, 1996
89. When

(a) the synod resolves that a Bill be not referred to a Committee of the whole Synod or to a Select Committee or

(b) the Bill has been referred to a committee and has been reported then the question is “That the report (of the Committee as the whole Synod or of the Select Committee) be adopted” and on adoption

the member presenting the Bill on either event shall move and the question be put “that the Bill (as amended in Committee of the whole Synod or by the Select Committee) be now passed “ or “That the Bill (as amended in Committee of the whole Synod or by the Select Committee) be made an Order of the Day for another time”.


Chairman to Certify
Order 101, 1950
Act No. 1, 1996

90. If a Bill has been considered by a Committee of the whole Synod or by a Select Committee a motion that the Bill do now pass shall not be passed until the Chairman of Committees shall have certified that the Bill as printed is in accordance with the Bill as reported and the President has announced to the Synod that the Chairman has so certified.



Recommittal
Order 100, 1950

91. On the consideration of the question for the passing of the Bill the synod may order the Bill to be recommitted to a Committee of the Whole or to a Select Committee.



Order 104, 1950

92. Further proceedings on the question for the passing of the Bill may be adjourned to a future time and day.



Typographical errors
Order 106, 1950

93. Clerical or typographical errors may be corrected in any part or in any stage of the Bill by the Secretary before it is assented to by the Bishop and the Secretary shall forthwith inform the Synod what errors he has so corrected in the Bill.



Authentication
of Bill
Order 107, 1950

94. Every such Bill shall immediately after it shall have passed the Synod be printed and when so printed shall be duly authenticated by the Secretary as the Bill to which the Synod has agreed and thereupon the Registrar shall certify the day on which such bill passed and shall present such Bill to the Bishop for his assent.



Assent of Bishop
Order 108, 1950

95. The assent of the Bishop or his refusal to assent to any Bill passed by the Synod shall with all convenient speed after the assent or the refusal to assent by the Bishop has been declared by him to the Registrar be notified by such Registrar to the Synod and such registrar if such Bill has been assented to shall cause the same to be duly registered as an Act of the Bishop the Clergy and Laity of the Anglican Church of Australia within the Diocese of Wangaratta and to be preserved in the Registry of the diocese with the assent of the Bishop endorsed thereon or subscribed thereto.



General

96. In all cases not herein provided for, resort shall be had to the rules forms and practice of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia so far as they can be applied and otherwise Synod shall make such order as it shall deem expedient.

Motions not open to debate

Where no debate is permitted
Order 25, 1950

97. The following motions or other matters are not open to debate and shall be moved or dealt with without argument or opinion offered and shall be forthwith put or dealt with from the Chair without amendment.


(a) formal motions under Order 12 (b)

(b) A motion that leave to given to bring in a bill for an Act under Order 73 (b)


(c) A motion “That this debate be now adjourned”

(d) A motion “That Synod pass to the next business”

(e) A motion for the previous question “That the motion be not put”.

(f) A motion “That the question be now put”

(g) A motion that the Chairman report progress (either simply or in any form)


(h) A motion that the President or the Chairman leave the Chair

(i) A motion that the Synod be counted

(j) A motion that Standing Orders be suspended

(k) A motion that a petition be received (and printed)

(l) On a personal explanation under Order 27

(m) On putting a question or answering a question.

Passed: 27th August 1993
Assented to: 15th September 1993


Amended Act No. 1, 1996

Passed: 30th August 1996
Assented to: 19th September 1996


Amended Act No. 5, 1998

Passed: 2nd October 1998
Assented to: 23rd October 1998

Amended Act No. 3, 2001

Passed: 12th March 2001
Assented to: 4th April 2001











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