Victorian Current Acts

CHURCH OF ENGLAND ACT 1854 - SECT 5

No regulation of any such Synod which shall affect any right of appeal to Her Majesty in Council or to the Archbishop of Canterbury or to the Metropolitan of the province or the subordination of the said Bishops Clergy and Laity to the Metropolitan or to the said Archbishop shall be valid unless the consent of the said Archbishop or of the said Metropolitan thereto be previously or thereafter signified by him under his hand and seal nor unless such regulation be confirmed by an order of the Archbishop of Canterbury and no regulation act or resolution made or passed at any Synod shall be valid which shall alter or be at variance with the authorised standards of faith and doctrine of the United Church of England and Ireland or shall alter the oaths declarations and subscriptions now by law or canon required to be taken made and subscribed by persons to be consecrated ordained instituted or licensed within the said Church.

S. 6
amended by No. 1947 s. 3.