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CONSTITUTION This has developed over many centuries and represents a well tried and tested organisational method of working. Since the Company, as a living entity, needs to have continuing freedom to evolve, the "rules" have never been permanently consolidated and codified. A petition was submitted in 1400 to the Civic Authority by the Joiners
and Carvers for the appointment of Wardens with governing power to control
the craft and maintain standards of work and conduct the ancient bye-laws
of the Company were presented in 1572 and formally ratified in 1575
by
Sir Christopher Wray, The Chief Justice of England, after examination
by the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, the Chief Justice of the King's
Bench and the Chief Justice of the Common Bench. A Report on the Royal Charter, By-Laws and Customs dated December 1993 covered a detailed research into the background of the then current By-Laws and the need for change to accommodate a changing social and working climate. This document formed the basis of the current By-Laws dated 1997. |