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STANDING ORDERS AMENDMENT ACT 2003 (BALLARAT DIOCESE)

A BILL FOR AN ACT NO. 1 2003

A Bill for an Act to amend the Standing Orders Act 1988 - 1997.

THE STANDING ORDERS AMENDMENT ACT 2003

Be it enacted by the Bishop the Clergy and the Laity of the Anglican Church of Australia in the Diocese of Ballarat duly met in Synod according to law as follows.

Short Title

1. This Act may be cited as the Standing Orders Amendment Act 2003.
   
2. In this Act the Standing Orders Act 1988 – 1997 is referred to as the Principal Act.
   

Commencement

3. This Act comes into operation on the date on which it receives the assent of the Bishop.
   
4. Section 11A of the Principal Act is renumbered 11B.
   

A Division

5. For section 11 of the Principal Act substitute –
   

"11. (1) Whenever a division shall be demanded by any member of the Synod, unless a vote by Houses has been required under section 11A or is required by the Church Constitution Act 1854 or any regulation Act or resolution made thereunder, the clerical and lay members shall vote in one class, the "ayes" on the right and the "noes" on the left of the chair.

(2) If a vote by Houses has been required under section 11A or is required by the Church Constitution Act 1854 or any regulation Act or resolution made thereunder –

(a) the members of Synod present shall divide themselves into two orders, the one being lay and the other clerical;

(b) the members of each order shall then in separate classes take their seats, the "ayes" on the right and the "noes" on the left of the chair respectively;

(c) the President or Chairman or Presiding Member shall appoint one clerical and one lay Teller from either side; and

(d) the President or Chairman or Presiding Member shall declare which has the majority from written lists of each class of members voting on each side to be handed to him by the Tellers."

Voting by Houses

6. After section 11 of the Principal Act, insert -
   

"11A. (1) A vote by Houses may be required on demand by not less than three members of the House of Clergy or by not less than three members of the House of Laity.

(2) 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 Laity and then to the House of Clergy, and no question shall be deemed to be resolved in the affirmative by the Synod unless it be so resolved by a vote of the majority of those present in each of those two Houses and unless it receive the assent of the Bishop.

7. The Principal Act as amended may be cited as the ‘Standing Orders Act 1988-2003'.