| Legal Reference Committee
Responsible to: The Assembly
Reporting arrangements: The Assembly and the Standing
Committee
Mission Statement:
To provide advice to the Church, especially the Assembly,
on legal and constitutional matters, including the Regulations.
Mandate:
- To advise the Assembly and its officers and agencies
in legal and constitutional matters.
- To assist the Assembly in matters of drafting, checking
and interpretation of legal aspects of documents;
- To recommend to the Assembly and the Standing Committee
the wording of amendments to the Constitution and the Regulations.
- To advise other Councils of the Church, when requested
by the General Secretary, on matters relating to the Constitution and
the Regulations.
- To advise the President on requests for Presidential
Rulings.
General:
The responsibilities include:
- focusing the activities of the agency on the vision
of the Assembly as a whole;
- advising the Assembly and/or the Standing Committee
on policy matters within their area of responsibility;
- making policy decisions where the Assembly or the
Standing Committee has delegated authority for certain policy areas,
either through the agency mandate or by resolution;
- assisting the General Secretary and any other Secretariat
staff in the implementation of policies determined by the Assembly and/or
the Standing Committee;
- ensuring that appropriate pastoral support is offered
to agency staff members;
- participating in cross-agency projects and teams
established by the Assembly.
Power to appoint:
- To establish working groups for special tasks related
specifically to the mandate.
- To make recommendations to the Standing Committee
to establish other working groups for special tasks related to but not
part of the mandate.
Membership of the Reference Committee:
- Chairperson (appointed by the Assembly);
- up to six persons appointed by the Standing Committee;
- power to co-opt up to two additional persons to ensure
appropriate competencies, representation and development of new leadership.
Chairperson:
Mr Malcolm Gledhill
[mailto:mgledhill@smlaw.com.au]
Slade Manwaring
Level 21, 31 Market Stret
Sydney
NSW 1235
Phone (02) 8268 0800
FAX: (02) 8268 0888
Executive Officer: Assembly General Secretary (Rev
Terence Corkin)
Approved by Assembly Standing Committee, July 1998
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