2. In case the Board of Examiners find themselves unable to agree upon a text-book on any subject, they shall appoint two text-books as alternative subjects of examination. 3. The Board shall transmit a copy of such syllabus to each of the associated Universities and Colleges, and if within three months thereafter any of them shall state in writing disapproval of any text-book the Board shall either withdraw it or appoint with it an alternative text-book acceptable to the University or College making the objection. 4. Alterations made in the selected works shall not come into force until the annual examination next but one after the date of their announcement by the Board of Examiners. Text-books shall in all cases remain in force until the period above mentioned shall have elapsed from the date of the announcement of the new text-book by which they are severally replaced. 5. In subjects embraced in the schedule, on which selected works are not appointed, a list of books recommended by the Board of Examiners for study shall be announced. 6. The examination shall be conducted under the direct supervision and charge of at least one member of the Board of Examiners, or of some person appointed by the Chairman of the Board; and each University and Theological College aforesaid, and any other place selected by the Board of Examiners, shall be a centre for holding such examinations, which shall be held simultaneously in all centres, by means of written papers only. The time of holding such examinations shall be determined by the Board. 7. It shall be the duty of the Bishop of the Diocese in which any such centre exists to appoint, when requested, one or more persons for such centre, to assist the examiner in charge in distributing papers and maintaining order during the examination. Either the examiner in charge or his assistant shall be present throughout the whole of such examination. 8. The head of any University or College forming such centre as aforesaid, or a deputy appointed by him, shall have the right of being present during such examination, but shall take no part therein unless he be a member of the Examining Board, or have been appointed an assistant examiner. 9. The examination papers shall be published annually, and copies sent to each of the associated Universities and Colleges. 1. Candidates for the degree of B.D. must be either (1) Graduates in Arts of a recognized University in the British Dominions, or other University approved by the Board, or (2) Undergraduates in Arts of a recognized University who have completed two years of their course. 2. These requirements may, however, be dispensed with by the Board in special circumstances approved by a two-thirds vote of the whole Board, but every such candidate must be in Priests' Orders, and before presenting himself for the second examination for the B.D. degree shall submit University certificates equivalent to the work required in one of the aforesaid Universities in the second year in the following subjects:-Latin, Greek, English and either Logic or Philosophy; provided that in any Province where facilities are not obtainable for extra-mural University work, such equivalent may be accepted as shall be satisfactory to the Board of Examiners. *3. All candidates for the B.D. degree shall be required to pass the examination in Hebrew in the preliminary examination, or else present certificates of having taken and passed in a University course at least equivalent to this examination; provided that candidates who desire to present themselves without Hebrew may take as an alternative in the preliminary examination an adequate amount of Septuagint Greek, or present equivalent University certificates for the same. 4. University certificates shall be accepted pro tanto for such parts of the Syllabus as may have been taken by candidates in University Courses.† 5. Candidates for the degree of Doctor of Divinity must be Bachelors of Divinity of not less than five years' standing. 6. Any candidate for the degree of B.D., being qualified as required above in paragraph 1, shall be exempt from the first examination for the degree, upon submitting a certificate from his University or College that he has obtained at least 50 per cent. of the maximum marks of each annual examination of the prescribed course of theology in the same, provided always that such course shall first have been approved by the Board and placed upon its list of approved examinations for the purpose of this regulation. *Amended Tenth Session, 1924, Journal p. 113. †Amended pages 70-71, Journal Seventh Session, 1915. 1. Candidates for any of the examinations, except the Preliminary Examination for Holy Orders, must at least three months before the date of the examination, send to the secretary notice of their intention to present themselves for examination, on a form of application to be obtained from him. 2. The application of a Candidate for the preliminary examination for Holy Orders from one of the associate Universities and Colleges must be signed by the Head of the Theological College or of the Faculty of Theology in the University to which the candidate belongs, and that of a candidate not belonging to a University or College must be signed by his Bishop. All applications must be sent in at least one month before the date of the examination.* 3. Candidates have the option of taking the examinations at any of the Universities or Theological Colleges connected with the Church in the Ecclesiastical Province to which the candidate belongs. 4. The Board of Examiners shall transmit to the Metropolitan of each Ecclesiastical Province, and to the Registrar of each University and College, the names and marks of the succesful candidates immediately after each examination. 5. The Registrar of the General Synod shall keep a record of all degrees conferred under the Board, the particulars of which shall be sent to him by the University at which such degrees are conferred, or by the Metropolitan if conferred by him. V. SYLLABUS OF SUBJECTS See Journal of the VIIth Session, 1915, pp. 338 ff. VI. PROCEEDING TO DEGREES Candidates passed by the Board of Examiners in accordance with the above regulations and standard may proceed to their degrees in one of the following ways: (a) at the University with which such candidate is connected, under the chartered power of conferring degrees enjoyed by that University; (b) at any College which possesses degree-conferring powers such as those given St. John's College, Winnipeg, by the University Act of Manitoba, under the powers possessed by such College. *Amended, pages 70, 71, Journal Seventh Session, 1915. *(c) Degrees may be conferred under this Canon on Candidates in absentia. The hood for the certificate of the Preliminary Examination. shall be of black stuff with a border of crimson stuff two inches wide. The Hoods for the Degrees of Bachelor of Divinity and Doctor of Divinity shall be those belonging to the College from which the Candidate takes his degree.* The Diplomas for Degrees in Divinity issued by the Universities shall have inscribed upon them the following statement from the Primate: "The holder of this Diploma passed the Examination for the Degree of.... . ...before the Board of Examiners recognized by the General Synod of the Church of England in Canada." Primate The Diplomas issued by the Primate shall in each case specify the College in which the candidate has received his theological training, and shall be in the following form: We,.... bishop of.... by Divine permission, Arch and Primate acting by the powers conferred on us by the act of the Parliament of Canada, do hereby certify by these presents that the Rev... of..... ..College, having passed the Examination recognized by the General Synod of the Church of England in Canada, for the Degree of.. and having performed all the other exercises required by the Canon of the General Synod in this behalf, was duly admitted to his Degree on the .day of........ in the year of our Lord...... *Amended Tenth Session, Journal 1924, p. 114. Primate VII. ON FEES The following are the fees for examinations payable to the Secretary of the Board of Examiners: The fees for degrees are to be paid in all cases to the Bursar of the University or College at which the candidate receives his degree, and are as follows: For the degree of B.D. For the degree of D.D. CANON XI. $24 00 AN ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA (Enacted Sixth Session, Journal pp. 44 and 126) The General Synod of the Church of England in Canada enacts as follows: Whereas the Synods of the Dioceses of Columbia, New Westminster, Caledonia and Kootenay have by Memorials petitioned the General Synod to erect an Ecclesiastical Province coterminous with the Čivil Province of British Columbia, and Whereas a draft constitution embodied in the Memorial is the basis upon which these four Dioceses have agreed to enter into a Provincial Organization, Be it therefore enacted: 1. The diocese within the Civil Province of British Columbia, viz.: Columbia, New Westminister, Caledonia and Kootenay, and all other Dioceses at any time erected within the said Province shall constitute a new Ecclesiastical Province, co-terminous with the Civil Province, to be known as the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia. 2. Should any question arise between the Provincial Synod of British Columbia and the Provincial Synod of Rupert's Land as to territory, the matter shall be decided by the Synods of the Provinces concerned. |