may find guidance in the corresponding procedure applicable to the Assembly. In every case care must be taken that substantial justice is done to all concerned. 5.04. Members of presbytery. A presbytery consists of: (a) duly inducted ministers including colleagues and associate ministers of all pastoral charges within its bounds, (b) ministers or elders appointed by the Assembly to lecture within the Presbyterian Theological Centre, who may elect to have their seat on the presbytery in which the Theological Centre is located, or the presbytery in which they reside. (c) ministers regularly commissioned by the presbytery for the work of the Presbyterian Inland Mission, (d) ministers appointed to a full-time office by the Assembly or by the General Assembly of Australia or by a court or a committee or a board of either Assembly authorised by the Assembly to make such appointment and whose official residences are within the bounds of the Assembly or whose spheres of service are on an overseas mission field or with the defence forces as a chaplain and who were set-apart by the presbytery or who, having been set apart by another presbytery, reside within the bounds of the presbytery, and ministers who are missionaries in full-time employment serving in dual membership having been commissioned by the presbytery, (e) school chaplains being ministers of the church appointed by the school council in collaboration with and with the approval of the presbytery, (f) ministers emeriti who have seats on the presbytery by virtue of an appointment. (g) ministers to whom seats have been granted by the Assembly. Such seats shall be granted only after petition to the Assembly and after consideration of the applicant’s length of service in the Church, the applicant’s level of participation and interest in the business of the courts, the nature of any ministry being exercised by the applicant, the applicant’s potential contribution to the life and business of the courts and other factors considered relevant by the Assembly.
may find guidance in the corresponding procedure applicable to the Assembly. In every case care must be taken that substantial justice is done to all concerned. 5.04. Members of presbytery. A presbytery consists of: (a) duly inducted ministers including colleagues and associate ministers of all pastoral charges within its bounds, (b) ministers or elders appointed by the Assembly to lecture within the Presbyterian Theological Centre, who may elect to have their seat on the presbytery in which the Theological Centre is located, or the presbytery in which they reside. (c) ministers regularly commissioned by the presbytery for the work of the Presbyterian Inland Mission, (d) ministers appointed to a full-time office by the Assembly or by the General Assembly of Australia or by a court or a committee or a board of either Assembly authorised by the Assembly to make such appointment and whose official residences are within the bounds of the Assembly or whose spheres of service are on an overseas mission field or with the defence forces as a chaplain and who were set-apart by the presbytery or who, having been set apart by another presbytery, reside within the bounds of the presbytery, and ministers who are missionaries in full-time employment serving in dual membership having been commissioned by the presbytery, (e) school chaplains being ministers of the church appointed by the school council in collaboration with and with the approval of the presbytery, (f) ministers emeriti who have seats on the presbytery by virtue of an appointment. (g) ministers to whom seats have been granted by the Assembly. Such seats shall be granted only after petition to the Assembly and after consideration of the applicant’s length of service in the Church, the applicant’s level of participation and interest in the business of the courts, the nature of any ministry being exercised by the applicant, the applicant’s potential contribution to the life and business of the courts and other factors considered relevant by the Assembly.