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¶ 12. Article I.--1. The General Conference shall be composed of not less than 600 nor more than 1,000 delegates, one half of whom shall be ministers and one half lay members, to be elected by the annual conferences. The missionary conferences shall be considered as annual conferences for the purpose of this article.82. Delegates shall be elected by the annual conferences except that delegates may be elected by other autonomous Methodist Churches if and when the General Conference shall approve concordats with such other autonomous Methodist Churches for the mutual election and seating of delegates in each other's highest legislative conferences.
3. In the case of The Methodist Church in Great Britain, mother church of Methodism, provision shall be made for the reciprocal election and seating of four delegates, two clergy and two lay.9
8Amended 1976.
9Amended 1968; See Judicial Council Decisions 333, 402.
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1992 Book of Discipline: ¶ 12
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