Length of Service and Election

A churchwarden may serve for six successive periods. If he or she was a churchwarden before 2002, the six periods run from 2002. He is disqualified from being chosen to serve for more than six successive periods.

Length of Service
A churchwarden may serve for six successive periods. If he or she was a churchwarden before 2002, the six periods run from 2002.  He/she is disqualified from being chosen to serve for more than six successive periods.  But he/she can take a gap of two years and stand again.  Parishioners may resolve at the annual parochial church meeting that this section does not apply and that resolution can be revoked subsequently.

Election
A person who wants be appointed as a churchwarden must first be elected by a meeting of the parishioners. That meeting consists of:-

• People on the church electoral roll of the parish; and
• People resident in the parish whose names are entered on the local government electors register.

This emphasises the fact that churchwardens serve the whole parish and not just those who attend church.
Candidates must be nominated and seconded in writing by persons entitled to attend the meeting.  The prospective churchwarden must sign a statement that he or she is willing to serve as a churchwarden and is not disqualified (see 2 above) and is willing to apply to the Criminal Records Bureau for a standard disclosure check. The nomination paper must be received by the minister before the commencement of the meeting at which churchwardens are elected.

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• Churchwarden's Qualifications
• Disqualifications
• Length of Service and Election
• Meeting of Parishioners
• Minister's Veto
• Admission
• Vacation of Office
• Parochial Church Council
• Members and Officers of the Parochial Church Council
• General Provision relating to Parochial Church Councils
• Church Electoral Roll
• Annual Parochial Church meeting
• Functions of the PCC
• Land and other property
• Church and Churchyard
• Contents of the Church
• Insurance
• Food and Drink
• Employees
• Church Records
• Terrier, Inventory and Log Book
• Inspection and Reporting
• What to do before your Parish Priest leaves
• How the new Parish Priest is chosen
• Suspension of Presentation
• Running the Church during the vacancy
• Sources

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