Anglican Church of Australia Constitutions Act 1902 (NSW)

Anglican Church of Australia Constitutions Act 1902 (Private Act)

An Act to repeal the Act 30 Victoria, intituled An Act to enable the members of the United Church of England and Ireland in New South Wales to manage the property of the said Church; to authorise the substitution of the name Church of England for the name hitherto used of United Church of England and Ireland; to give legal force and effect to the constitutions for the management and good government of the Church of England within the State of New South Wales contained in the Schedule to this Bill; and for other purposes connected with or incidental to the above objects.

Preamble WHEREAS by an ordinance duly passed by the Church of England Provincial Synod of the Province of New South Wales, intituled the Amendment of Constitutions Application Ordinance of 1895, it was ordained and ruled that application should be made to Parliament to pass an Act to repeal the Act thirty Victoria, intituled An Act to enable the members of the United Church of England and Ireland in New South Wales to manage the property of the said Church, assented to on the fourth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, but without prejudice to anything done under the said Act before the repeal thereof, and to authorise the substitution in all statutes, acts, grants, deeds, and other instruments of the name Church of England for the name hitherto used of United Church of England and Ireland, and to give legal force and effect to certain constitutions contained in the Schedule to the said ordinance now in recital: And whereas the executive committee of the said Synod were, by the said ordinance now in recital, authorised and empowered to carry into effect the provisions of the same so soon as the Metropolitan should have reported to them that every diocese in the said Province had accepted the same: And whereas every diocese in the said Province has accepted the said ordinance, and the Metropolitan has so reported to the said executive committee: and whereas legal force and effect cannot be given to the said constitutions so far as regards the management of the property of the Church of England without the aid of the Legislature in the manner hereinafter provided: And whereas the constitutions contained in the Schedule to the said ordinance are embodied and contained in the Schedule to this Act: Be it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: