TITLE  V - CANONICAL LEGISLATION

CANON 63 - Of Enactment, Amendment, and Repeal 

Section 63.1
No new Canon shall be enacted, or existing Canon be amended or repealed, except by concurrent resolution of the three  Houses of the General Synod, provided that the same shall be agreed  to by at least two‑thirds of the members of all the Houses present  and voting on the question. Such resolution may be introduced first in any House, and shall be referred in each House to the Committee on Canons thereof, for consideration, report, and recommendation, before adoption by the House; Provided, that in any House the foregoing requirement of reference may be dispensed with by a three‑fourths vote of the members present. 

Section 63.2
Whenever a Canon which repealed another Canon, or part  thereof, shall itself be repealed, such previous Canon or part thereof shall not thereby be revived or re‑enacted, without express words to that effect. 

Section 63.3
In all cases of future enactment, the same, if by way of amendment of any existing provision, shall be in substantially the following form:  "Canon....(or  Section..., or  Clause....of Section....,of Canon....) is hereby amended to read as follows: (here insert the new reading)".  And in the event of insertion of a new Canon, or of a new Section, or Clause, in a Canon, or of the repeal of an existing Canon, or of a Section or Clause, the numbering of the Canons, or of divisions of a Canon, which follow shall be changed accordingly. 

Section 63.4

(a) The Committee on Canons of each House of the General Synod shall, at the close of each regular meeting of the General Synod, appoint two of its members to certify the changes, if any, made in the Canons, including a correction of the references made in any Canon to another, and to report the same, with the proper arrangement thereof, to the Secretary, who shall publish them in the Journal. 

(b)  The Committee on Amendments to the Constitution of each House of the General Synod shall, at the close of each regular meeting of the General Synod appoint a similar committee of two of its members to certify in like manner the changes, if any, made in the Constitution, or proposed to be made therein under the provisions of Article XI of the Constitution, and to report the same to the Secretary, who shall publish them in the Journal. 

Section 63.5
All canons enacted during the General Synod of 1991 shall take effect at the time of their enactment.  Thereafter all amendments and repeals of Canons then or thereafter made, unless otherwise expressly ordered, shall take effect on the first day of January following the adjournment of the General Synod at which they were enacted or made. 

Section 63.6
Anything in these Canons to the contrary notwithstanding, the General Synod in the triennial meeting of 1996 may amend these Canons by a majority of each House of the General Synod.