The document outlines the structure and regulations regarding the officers of a Masonic Lodge. Regular officers include the Master, two Wardens, a Treasurer, a Secretary, two Deacons, an Inner Guard, and a Tyler. The Master has the authority to appoint additional officers such as an Almoner and a Charity Steward, among others, but no Brother may hold more than one regular office simultaneously, although an additional role may be assigned. Non-subscribing members can only serve as Tyler. By-laws may allow the Secretary's services to count as a subscription, with necessary payments to the Grand Lodge. Officers are invested in a specific order, and no Brother has a right to advancement; appointments are at the Master's discretion. The Immediate Past Master is not an officer but retains precedence and responsibilities until a new Master is appointed, taking precedence before the Chaplain or Treasurer if no Chaplain exists.
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(a) The regular Officers of a Lodge shall be the Master and his two Wardens, a Treasurer, a Secretary, two Deacons, an Inner Guard and a Tyler. The Master shall appoint as additional officers an Almoner and a Charity Steward, and may also appoint as additional officers a Chaplain, a Director of Ceremonies, a Membership Officer, a Mentor, an Assistant Director of Ceremonies, an Organist, an Assistant Secretary and a Steward or Stewards, but no others. No Brother can hold more than one regular office in the Lodge at one and the same time, but the Master may appoint a Brother who is holding a regular office to one additional office also. (b) A Brother who is not a subscribing member of the Lodge may not hold any office therein except that of Tyler. (c) A Lodge in its by-laws may provide that the services of its Secretary be equivalent to the appropriate subscription to the Lodge, but shall remit to the Grand Lodge and to Metropolitan, Provincial or District Grand Lodge the requisite payments due in respect of his membership of the Lodge. (d) The Officers of a Lodge shall take precedence for investiture and otherwise in the following order: Master, Senior Warden, Junior Warden, Chaplain (if any), Treasurer, Secretary, Director of Ceremonies (if any), Almoner, Charity Steward, Membership Officer (if any), Mentor (if any), Senior Deacon, Junior Deacon, Assistant Director of Ceremonies (if any), Organist (if any), Assistant Secretary (if any), Inner Guard, Steward (if any) and Tyler. (e) No Brother has any right to claim advancement. The appointment of all Officers, except the Master, the Treasurer, and (if elected) the Tyler, is in the sole discretion and power of the Master. (f) The Immediate Past Master, as such, is not an officer of the Lodge. He holds his position and responsibilities by virtue of his Mastership, and retains that position until a succeeding Master becomes Immediate Past Master. He reoccupies the position if such succeeding Master should die or cease to be a member of the Lodge while holding the position of Immediate Past Master. (g) The Immediate Past Master takes precedence in the Lodge immediately in front of the Chaplain, or, if there be no Chaplain, then immediately in front of the Treasurer.