The judiciary
¶57
What the Judicial Council may rule on.
- 2024 Discipline
- ¶57
- On the ballot paper
- ¶56
- Article
- II
- Change
- Amended in part
The ballot reproduces only the portions of this paragraph it changes, eliding the rest with an ellipsis. The text on the right is therefore partial; everything not shown is unchanged and stands as printed at ¶57 of the 2024 Discipline, on the left.
Specifically, sub-item(s) 2, 3 are not reproduced.
What changed
Two of the four sub-items are reproduced, both amended only to add regional conferences alongside jurisdictional ones. What the amendment does not address is how the Judicial Council relates to the regional judicial courts that ¶32.6 permits. It creates the courts and leaves the relationship unstated.
Before
Book of Discipline 2020/2024, ¶57
The Judicial Council shall have authority: 1. To determine the constitutionality of any act of the General Conference upon an appeal of a majority of the Council of Bishops or one-fifth of the members of the General Conference and to determine the constitutionality of any act of a jurisdictional or central conference upon an appeal of a majority of the bishops of that jurisdictional or central conference or upon the appeal of onefifth of the members of that jurisdictional or central conference. 2. To hear and determine any appeal from a bishop’s decision on a question of law made in the annual conference when said appeal has been made by one-fifth of that conference present and voting. 3. To pass upon decisions of law made by bishops in annual conferences. 4. To hear and determine the legality of any action taken therein by any General Conference board or jurisdictional or central conference board or body, upon appeal by one-third of the members thereof, or upon request of the Council of Bishops or a majority of the bishops of a jurisdictional or a central conference. 5. To have such other duties and powers as may be conferred upon it by the General Conference. 6. To provide its own methods of organization and procedure.
After
Petition 21039, as ratified (changed portions only)
The Judicial Council shall have authority:
1. To determine the constitutionality of any act of the General Conference upon an appeal of a majority of the Council of Bishops or one-fifth of the members of the General Conference and to determine the constitutionality of any act of a regional or jurisdictional conference upon an appeal of a majority of the bishops of that regional or jurisdictional conference or upon the appeal of one-fifth of the members of that regional or jurisdictional conference.
4. To hear and determine the legality of any action taken therein by any General Conference board, regional, or jurisdictional conference board or body, upon appeal by one-third of the members thereof, or upon request of the Council of Bishops or a majority of the bishops of a regional or jurisdictional conference.