Constitution II
Part II
2.00 ORGANIZATION AND MEMBERSHIP
2.01 The Synod of the Diocese of Saskatchewan shall consist of the Bishop of the Diocese, who shall be President of the Synod; the clergy of the Diocese licensed by the Bishop except those licensed as Assistant Chaplains of the Henry Budd Memorial Chapel, and not under ecclesiastical censure; the Lay delegates hereinafter provided for, the Suffragan Bishop of Saskatchewan, any Coadjutor or Assistant Bishops of the Diocese, the Dean of Saskatchewan, the Executive Secretary, the Treasurer, the Registrar, the Chancellor, the President and Treasurer of the Diocesan Board of Anglican Church Women; all catechists and/or lay readers holding a current licence and having charge of a Parish; all full time stipendiary workers holding the Bishop's licence.
All members of Synod are entitled to take part in debates and to vote. But if a vote by Orders is requested, then those in Holy Orders, except as provided above, shall vote in the clerical order and the rest in the order of laity.
2.02 Wherever the word Communicant occurs in the Constitution, Canons or Resolutions of this Synod, it shall be taken to mean one who has communicated in a congregation of the Anglican Church not less than three times within the last twelve months provided he or she has had opportunity to do so. The Declaration of the person affected as to whether he or she has, or has not had opportunity shall be taken as prima facie answer upon this point.
2.03 Lay delegates shall be fully sixteen years of age. They shall be communicants and eligible to vote in a meeting of a congregation under Canon IV Sec. C 4.04 and shall have been duly elected delegates. The proper forms are to be found in Appendix A.
2.04 (a) Each congregation for which the latest required Statistical Returns have been received by the Synod Office shall have the right to one delegate to Synod.
(b) Organized congregations with not less than 100 confirmed members shall have the right to two delegates to Synod.
(c) Self-supporting congregations shall have the right to two delegates to Synod for the first 100 confirmed members, and one additional delegate for each 50 confirmed members thereafter to a maximum of three additional delegates.
2.05 The Rector or Chairperson shall forward to the Secretary of Synod within 15 days of their election (as provided under Sec.2.03 and 2.04) a Certificate as shown in Appendix A.
2.06 Each regional dean, after consulting the parishes of the deanery, shall nominate one youth delegate, sixteen to twenty-one years of age, and that the Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese, after consulting with the parishes of his area, shall nominate three youth delegates sixteen to twenty-one years of age, all of whom shall be members of parishes within their respective areas. The Bishop concurring, these nominees shall be certified as members of Synod with all the privileges and duties pertaining thereto.
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