- Grosvenor Road
- Birkdale
- Southport
- Merseyside
- PR8 2ET
Clause 6
HONORARY
OFFICERS, REPRESENTATIVES AND COMMITTEES
6.1 The
Church Meeting shall:
a) consider the candidates
nominated by the Elders’ Meeting for the office of Church Secretary, and by the
charity trustees of the Church’s general funds for the office of Treasurer. If
the candidate for Church Secretary is not acceptable to the Church Meeting then
a fresh nomination is to be sought from the Elders’ Meeting.
b) elect a Church Treasurer
c) elect a person or persons to represent
the Church on the Synod. These shall normally be members of the Elders’ Meeting
d) elect such other honorary
officers and representatives to external bodies as it sees fit;
6.2 The Church Meeting and Elders’ Meeting may
each establish such committees or ministry groups as they see fit, prescribing
their method of appointment, terms of reference and frequency of reporting to
the parent body. The Church Meeting may determine to which council of the
church (itself or the Elders’ Meeting) any committee or group established by it
is to report.
6.3 Control of a delegated budget, with or
without the competence to sign cheques drawn on church funds, may be delegated
by the charity trustees of the funds concerned to committees, ministry groups
or individual officers.