An elder is elected and ordained to the eldership for life and holds his status as an elder until the Session having jurisdiction over him accepts his resignation or he is deposed from office or otherwise loses that status.

An elder remains a member of the Session which inducts him to the exercise of the duties of the eldership until he ceases to be a communicant member of that congregation or until the Session accepts his resignation from it or he is deposed or otherwise loses his status as an elder.

When an elder leaves a congregation with a certificate of communicant membership, he remains an elder. If he joins another congregation, he becomes a member of the Session of that congregation only by election to that Session by the communicants of the congregation and by subsequent induction to office in that court.

An elder is (as any other communicant member of the congregation) under the jurisdiction of the Session. The Session may remove the name of any elder from the roll of the Session if that elder can no longer perform his duties as an elder. The Session must give at least ten clear days’ notice to all members of the court stating the time and place of meeting and the action proposed. At this meeting the Session may decide that as a consequence of: prolonged or frequent absence from divine worship or from meetings of the Session without leave given or proper and sufficient cause shown: or physical or mental infirmity, his usefulness as a member of the Session has been so seriously impaired as to make his continued membership inadvisable, and remove his name from the roll of Session.