Agenda Volume 2 - Methodist Conference

42. Ministries Committee
that either the local oversight
committee of the relevant
training institution or the district
Probationers Committee is able
to make the recommendations for
discontinuance of diaconal students
and probationers.
The following Standing Order
amendments are proposed:-
030 Scope of Section
(2) The provisions of Standing Orders 031 to 034 shall apply when either of the
oversight committees concerned recommends discontinuance (that is to say that
a student cease training or that a probationer be not continued on trial or be not
recommended for ordination, as the case may be) but there is no charge which
would, if established, put in question his or her standing as a member of the Church
or as a local preacher.
(3) For the purposes of this Section the oversight committees concerned is are:
(i) for presbyteral students the Presbyteral Candidates and Probationers Oversight
Committee or and the local oversight committee appointed under Standing Order
321(4);
(ii) for diaconal students the Diaconal Candidates and Probationers Oversight
Committee and the local oversight committee appointed under Standing Order
321(4);
(iii) for presbyteral probationers, including those who are in part-time circuit
appointments, the Presbyteral Candidates and Probationers Oversight Committee or
and the district Probationers’ Committee; and
(iv) for diaconal students and probationers, the Diaconal Candidates and
Probationers Oversight Committee and the district Probationers’ Committee.
031 Initial Committee. (1) When this Standing Order applies a connexional
Review Committee, consisting of five persons, shall be appointed by the Secretary of
the Conference, who shall appoint one member of the committee to be its secretary,
and that committee shall be convened by its secretary to consider the question of
discontinuance and make a recommendation to the Presbyteral Session of the
Conference or the Conference Diaconal Committee as appropriate.
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