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ACNS 3995     |     ACO     |	  23 JUNE 2005

Resolutions of ACC-13 from June 22 and 23

International Anglican Family Network

The Anglican Consultative Council:
receives the report of the International Anglican Family Network thanks
the members of the Network for their ongoing contribution to the life of
the Anglican Communion

Inter-Anglican Finance and Administration Committee

The Anglican Consultative Council:
adopts and approves the Statement of Accounts for the fifteen months
ending 31 December 2003 and the year ending 31 December 2004

The Appointment of the Archbishop of York

The Anglican Consultative Council:
notes with pleasure the news of the appointment of the Bishop of
Birmingham, Dr John Sentamu, as Archbishop of York, and offers its
prayers and good wishes for a fruitful and happy ministry.

ACC Constitutional Change (ACC to be a charitable company)

The Anglican Consultative Council:

(1) notes and approves the draft memorandum and articles proposed by the
Standing Committee in order to reconstitute the work of the Council
within the framework of a limited liability company as requested by ACC
11 and ACC 12; and

(2) authorises the Standing Committee to make such final amendments to
the documentation as may be needed in the light of this Council's
discussions and the views of the Primates Meeting, and in accordance
with legal advice and any further comments received from the Charity
Commissioners; and

(3) requests the Standing Committee to establish such a body with
charitable status in accordance with the such approved draft Memorandum
and Articles as amended as a result of any such views, advice or
comments ; and

(4) resolves to transfer to the new charitable company all the Council's
assets and liabilities in due course and to wind up the affairs of the
existing legal entity once the new arrangements are in place.

ACC Constitutional Change (in the light of the Windsor Report)

The Anglican Consultative Council

(a)	takes note that the Secretary General has taken appropriate
steps to implement and respond to the recommendations of Appendix One of
the Windsor Report insofar as they relate to the administration of the
Anglican Communion Office, and thanks him for this work;

(b)	requests that the Standing Committee of the Council and the
Archbishop of Canterbury give consideration to convening a meeting of
the Standing Committee at the same time and in the same place as the
next meeting of the Primates, and that they facilitate the opportunity
for joint sessions of business and consultation;

(c)	requests that the Schedule of Membership of the Council be
amended to make the members of the Primates' Standing Committee for the
time being ex officio members of the Anglican Consultative Council in
accordance with the text set out in Appendix One;

(d)	resolves that the Constitution of the Council be amended by the
deletion of existing Article 7(a) and replacing it with the text set out
in Appendix Two;

(e)	 requests that the Schedule of Membership of the Council be
amended to provide that the Primates and Moderators of the Churches of
the Provinces of the Anglican Communion shall be additional ex officio
members of the Council, and that in order to achieve appropriate balance
between the orders of bishops, clergy and laity in the Council that the
representative members shall thereafter be only from either the priestly
and diaconal orders or from the laity of the appropriate Provinces as
set out in Appendix Three, the execution of this amendment being subject
    (i)	the Primates' assent to such a change at their next
meeting;
    (ii)    two thirds of the Provinces of the Anglican Communion giving
their approval of such a change by resolution of		the
appropriate constitutional body;
    (iii)   final amendment (if any) and approval by the Standing
Committee in the light of such deliberations;
    (iv)    such provisions taking effect in relation to existing
members of the Council only upon the occasion of the next
vacancy arising in the membership.

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