GS 1965 ARTICLE 148: Address for Reports

The following proposal is also adopted:

• “The General Synod has taken note of the request of the Church at Barrhead “to determine explicitly that Governors and further all deputies appointed by the Synod shall send their reports and proposals to the Churches. They shall do in a timely manner so that the Churches can consider them before the next Synod.”
• The Synod considers that the nature of the matter is that deputies report to the body mandating or to the next meeting of a similar sort, and that therefore deputies appointed by a General Synod report to the next General Synod.
• The Synod judges that it is not desirable to state as a general rule that Governors and all deputies appointed by a General Synod shall also send any reports and proposals in advance to the Churches, “so that they can consider them”, since this would give the impression that this is the task of the Churches.
• The Synod, therefore, declares that it cannot accede to the request of the Church at Barrhead.”

Press Release version ARTICLE 21: Address Reports.

Synod rejects an overture that Synod decide that the Governors and all other synodical deputies shall send their reports and proposals to the Churches at such a time before a General Synod is held that the Churches will be able to study them.