Section 48 and Schedule 18: Powers to act for the protection of public health: Northern Ireland Section 84: Postponement of General Synod elections
The section enables elections to the General Synod of the Church of England that are due to take place this summer to be postponed. It does so by creating a delegated power enabling Her Majesty, by Order in Council, at the joint request of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, to postpone the date on which the Convocations of Canterbury and York – and therefore the General Synod – automatically stand dissolved under the Church of England Convocations Act 1966.
	The territorial extent of this section is England and Wales only, but it applies only to the Church of England.