The name general meeting is now used for several different kinds of organisation, usually based on a geographical grouping of several area meetings. The General Meeting for Scotland (see 5.03) and Meeting of Friends in Wales (see 5.04 and 5.05) have certain delegated powers from Yearly Meeting. Yearly Meeting in 2005 recognised that some geographic general meetings wished to be laid down and with effect from Yearly Meeting in 2007 the eighteen regional general meetings in England and Wales were removed from the administrative structure. There are two other distinct types of general meeting, one being any Quaker school general meeting that functions solely as that school's responsible body, the other being Young Friends General Meeting (see 5.09).
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