From The Church Times-
THE legal adviser to the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), Canon John Rees, has denied that its new constitution will impinge on the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury or of the Pri mates’ Meeting.
In an interview with the Anglican Communion News Service, Canon Rees said that the constitution’s articles restricted “neither the Archbishop’s role as the pivotal Instrument of Communion, nor his role in calling together the Primates’ Meeting”. “As the Archbishop’s Registrar for the Province of Canter bury, I would have been very concerned if I had thought there was any intention to do so.”
The new constitution was introduced so that the ACC, which is a charity, could move from a traditional trusteeship model, which made standing-committee members personally liable for its affairs, to a company structure. Members of the ACC’s standing committee remain the body’s trustees, but are now identified as a board of directors.
Canon Rees also described as “very wide of the mark” claims that the constitution is designed to increase the power of the standing committee.
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