1. When a court shall have completed its deliberation concerning an accused offender and shall have found him guilty, the court, unless it has received a written notice of appeal within two weeks after the decision has been rendered, shall proceed to apply the appropriate censure. All censures may be administered or announced in the absence of the offender, but not without due notice having been given the offender. As in previous judicial proceedings, the court shall, in the application of censures, remind itself that the purpose of Christian discipline is the redemption of the offender.
2. Admonition: this censure is to be administered in private.
3. Rebuke: where the offense is private, or where the witness of the church will not be injured thereby, the rebuke shall be in private. But where the offense is public, the rebuke shall ordinarily be pronounced in public. In either case, a statement of the offense shall accompany any rebuke.
4. Suspension: this censure should generally be indefinite in its duration, continuing until the person suspended gives such evidence of repentance as may warrant its repeal. The good of the offender and/or the Church may require that the offender be suspended for a definite length of time, even though he confesses his sin and gives evidence of repentance. This censure should, as a rule, be announced in the Church by a representative of the court. If in the judgment of the court, however, the good of the offender and/or the Church requires, this censure may be administered privately.
5. Deposition: the censure of deposition is to be announced in the Church by a member of the court. The censure of deposition passed on a pastor shall be publicly read to his congregation by a representative of the presbytery, who shall then declare the pulpit vacant. Only in rare cases of gross offense, the good of the offender and/or the Church may require that the offender, even though he confesses his sin and manifests repentance, be deposed from office. Except in such cases, deposition is to preceded by suspension to give time for careful consideration before deposition is imposed. In the case of a pastor who confesses his sin and manifests repentance, and yet the presbytery moves to depose him, upon deposition his name shall be removed from the role of the presbytery and the presbytery shall dismiss him to a particular Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church or other Christian Church that will agree to receive him as a member and offer him spiritual care and pastoral oversight. The presbytery may recommend that the deposed minister, if he be under suspension from the Lord’s Table, be received as a member by the particular church under the censure of suspension (BOD V.A.8) until he gives such evidence of repentance as may warrant its repeal.
6. Expulsion: the officiating minister shall read the decision of the court in the presence of the congregation and recount the steps taken in the case, showing the necessity of this censure. He is then to lead the congregation in prayer for both the church court and the offender. After the announcement of the censure, he is to instruct the members of the church that expulsion does not destroy the bonds of natural and civil relations. Nor does expulsion relieve them from their Christian responsibility to witness to the love of God to the expelled person. The session, when it considers this censure necessary, may refer the matter, along with a full record of the proceeding, the evidence in the case, and its recommendations, to the presbytery. The presbytery may then order such censures as it deems proper to be imposed by the session.
7. In all cases of censure by lower church courts, the offender shall be advised of his right of appeal to a higher court.

Amendment No. 1, VII.5, June 8, 2005