Hong Kong Regulations

CHURCH OF ENGLAND TRUST (CHURCH COUNCILS) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 2

Constitution of church councils

Every church council shall consist of-

   (a)  the incumbent or clergyman in charge;

   (b)  the senior licensed assistant clergyman, if any;

   (c)  such number of lay representatives (who may be of either sex) as the
        annual church meeting may from time to time decide. Such lay
        representatives must be actual communicant members of the Church of
        England or of a church in communion with it and not entered upon the
        electoral roll of any other church in the Diocese. No candidate may be
        elected who has not previously consented to serve. The number may be
        altered from time to time by a resolution passed at an annual church
        meeting of the church concerned but so that the alteration shall not
        take effect till the year following the date at which it is made;
        (L.N. 102 of 1970)

   (d)  co-opted members if the church council concerned so decides not
        exceeding in number one-fifth of the elected lay representatives and
        being either in holy orders or actual lay communicant members of the
        Church of England of either sex or of a church in communion with it;
        (L.N. 102 of 1970)

   (e)  the two lay representatives elected at the annual church meeting as
        members of the body of The Trustees of the Church of England in the
        Diocese of Victoria, Hong Kong. (L.N. 102 of 1970)