2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1390:3-4

(3) To consider and examine any person who desires to be received into the district from another denomination, and to be recognized as an ordained, commissioned or licensed minister or commissioned special worker and to recommend to the district conference for reception as in process of transfer, and subsequently for recognition as in full standing, only such a person as it deems properly qualified according to The Discipline (cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3104; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3470); and, in the interim of district conference sessions, to make such recommendation to the district board of administration (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1233:37).

(4) To consider and examine any person applying for reinstatement or restoration of ordination, commission or license and to recommend to the district conference only such a person as it deems properly qualified according to The Discipline (cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3120-3124; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:5230-5248).