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Act On Membership Of The Church, Church Services And Parish Band Solution

Original Language Title: Act on membership of the church, church service and parish band solution

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Formation and termination of membership of the public church

Chapter 2 The relationship with the church's congregation.

Chapter 3 The member's right to a church service.

Chapter 4 SogneTape solution

Chapter 5 Entry into force into force

Publication of the Law of the Church of the People's Church, the service and the sogneband solution

This shall be the subject of the law. 352 of 6. June 1991 on the membership of the Church, the church service and the sogling solution with the changes that result from the law. 941 of 20. December 1999, Law No 47 of 28. January, 2009, and law no. 507 of 12. June 2009.

Chapter 1

Formation and termination of membership of the public church

§ 1. People who are baptized in the church are going to be in the baptism of the People's Church.

Paragraph 2. People who have been baptized in another evangeli-Lutheran community of allegiance here in the country become members of the Church by joining a church of the people.

Paragraph 3. People who are baptized in an evangelio-lutheran community abroad are members of the Church by taking a stay in this country, unless they report it would be outside the church.

Paragraph 4. Other people named with the Christian baptism become members of the Church by joining the Church or in the name of minors, by being raised in the faith of the people of the Church.

§ 2. A member of the People's Church can put an end to its membership by written notification.

Paragraph 2. The membership will cease if a Member joins a different faith society, or otherwise, for example, by letting himself baptitigo, stand outside the church.

§ 3. For unmarried persons under 18 years of age, provisions shall be taken in accordance with section 1 (1) Two to four, and paragraph 2 of the holder of the parental authority, however, that a person who is 15 years old must also give his consent.

§ 4. The church minister shall lay down detailed rules on admission to and withdrawal from the church.

Chapter 2

The relationship with the church's congregation.

§ 5. The members of the Group of the European Parliament are members of the congregation of the parish in which they are domiciled, unless they are referred to in particular by reference to a different congregation. Members of the members of the deaf and the members of the Act of SICT. However, the Petri German congregation also maintains the sense of belonging to the parish congregation.

Chapter 3

The member's right to a church service.

§ 6. Every member of the public church is entitled to the church service of the priest or the priests of the congregation to which the honourable Member is told. § 5. However, the parishioners are served by the priest to whom there is a loose parion band.

Paragraph 2. A Member who is not domiciled in this country is entitled to the church service by the priest of the congregation that has been heard by the honourable Member at the latest.

§ 7. A member of the Church who does not belong to the parish parish, but which has a particular association with this, has the right to the church service in the Church of the Sogneenson. Special association is, among other things, if the member

1) formerly known to domicile in the parish,

2) have close relatives who live in the parish, or

3) in the case of burial or service, parents, spouse or children buried in a cemetery in the parish.

Paragraph 2. The Church Minister may lay down detailed rules for the right of the church service in the Church of the Sogneenary.

Paragraph 3. The minister ' s decision pursuant to paragraph 1 1 may be submitted for the bishop. The bishop ' s decision may not be brought to the second administrative authority.

§ 8. The priests of a reverend may share the parity of the parish in areas so that each minister is serving its territory.

Paragraph 2. However, members of the members of the Menito, however, have the right to the church to serve the services of any of the pastor's clerks.

§ 9. If the floorboard or the priests are requested, or the bishop considers it necessary, the bishop after negotiating with the parishioners and the clerks may lay down rules on the operation of the clerks or the congregation of the congregation, including on the subject of the rules governing the operation of the clerks, including those relating to the congregation of division of the pastorate in areas and whether the clerks are allowed to use the church or churches. Such rules shall always be laid down where the reverend is divided into areas.

Paragraph 2. Decisions by the bishop in accordance with paragraph 1. 1 may be clawed on to the church minister concerned by the church ministers concerned and the clerks.

Chapter 4

SogneTape solution

§ 10. A member of the People's Church can join the parishion of a parishion for a parish other than the one to which the member of the parishion is a member of a parishioners. A priest is not obligated to receive an applicant as a parishioners, provided the consideration for this is to be vital to the priest or his parish.

Paragraph 2. A priest's dissection after paragraph 1. 1 may be claimed by the member to the bishop. The bishop's decision cannot be made for the Church of the Church.

§ 11. Sognetape solution shall be terminated during the sognetape resolution on this subject.

Paragraph 2. A priest, for whom parishioners has been resolved, can recesce the parishioners if circumstances are available which make it unjustifiable to maintain the obligations of the priest to the person concerned. Termination must be written in writing by 6 months ' notice. The recon can be filed by the parishioners to the Bishop. Complaining to the bishop no later than four weeks after receipt of the notice has been a seagingly effective effect. The bishop's decision cannot be made for the Church of the Church.

Paragraph 3. The parishioners solution will cease when the priest to whom the parish band has been resolved shall be transferred, dies or made redundant. The parishioners may defer at the time of the day until a new minister is employed.

§ 12. For unmarried persons under the age of 18, provisions shall be taken in accordance with section 10 to 11 of the holder ' s proprietor, however, that a person who is 15 years must also give his consent.

§ 13. The church minister lays down detailed rules on the foundation and the cessation of the parishion solution.

Chapter 5

Entry into force into force

§ 14. The law shall enter into force on 1. January 1992. At the same time

1) Law on the parish council, cf. Law Order no. 758 of 7. December 1987, and

2) laws on the use of churches, sogneband solution, etc., cf. Law Order no. 759 of 7. December 1987.

Paragraph 2. Law no. 218 of 23. April 1986 on the Management Board and the use of the churches churches and so on are amended as follows :

1. I Section 5 (5). 2, in the case of "section 22" to : "§ 9 in the Law of the Church of the People's Church, the service and the sogling solution".

2. Chapter 3 revoked.

§ 15. The law does not apply to the Faroe Islands and Greenland. The law knows what to do. the device shall be put into force on the Faroe Islands, with the deviations which the particular feroted conditions are attributed.


Law No 941 of 20. In December 1999, the following entry into force, etc. shall be :

§ 4

The Section 1 and 2 of the Act shall enter into force on the day following the notice in Judiers, while the Act of Act 3 enters into force on 1. January 2001.

§ 5

The law does not apply to the Faroe Islands and Greenland. The law knows what to do. the device shall be put into force on the Faroe Islands, with the deviations which the particular feroted conditions are attributed.


Law No 47 of 28. In January 2009, the following entry into force, etc. shall be :

§ 8

Paragraph 1. The law shall enter into force on 1. Feb 2009, cf. however, paragraph 1 2-4.

Paragraph 2. section 21 a and section 21 b, in the Act of the Volunta's economy, which shall be replaced by the section 4 of this Act. Eighteen, enter into force on 1. January, 2010.

Paragraph 3. § 4, no. Paragraph 1 of this Act, Section 1 of the Finance Church economy, as amended by the section 4 of this Act. 3, section 11, paragraph 1. 3 and section 17 b (s), Amendment No 7, on the economics of the Church of the People's Church, which is written in paragraph 4 of this law. 14-15, as well as section 19, in the employment position of the People's Church, and so on, as provided for in the section 5 of this Act of entry into force on 1. In January 2010, with effect on the 2011 budget.

Paragraph 4. § 8 (3) Paragraph 1, paragraph 9, paragraph 9. Paragraph 1, section 11 and section 14 (4). 1, no. 1, on the board and the use of the churches of the church, etc., which is drawn up by the section 2 of this law. 1-3, section 1, paragraph 1. Paragraph 1 and paragraph. 3-5, section 2, paragraph 2. 3 and 4, section 27 (4). 4, and section 43 (3). 3 and 6, in the Law of the Board of Congregation, which has been drawn up in section 6 of this law. 1-8, 11 and 12, and section 7 (4). Paragraph 1, section 8, paragraph 8. Paragraph 21 (1) and section 21 (1). 1, in the law of choice for parenthoses, as drawn up by the section 7 of this law. 1-3, enter into force on 1 1. October 2010.

§ 9

The church minister may lay down detailed rules on the procedure for the transfer of the clerkoffice's captions, cf. § 4, no. Eighteen, as well as rules on the conversion of church districts to parish.

§ 10

The law does not apply to the Faroe Islands and Greenland.


Law No 507 of 12. In June 2009, the following entry into force, etc. shall be :

§ 2

The law shall enter into force on 1. July, 2009.

§ 3

The law does not apply to the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

The Church of the Church, the 17-year-old. June 2009Birthe Rønn Hornbech / Eva Stilov