Unitarian Church Act 1927 (NSW)

Unitarian Church Act 1927 (Private Act)

An Act to regulate the temporal affairs of the Congregation or Society Denominated Unitarians in New South Wales.

Preamble WHEREAS by an Act passed in the thirty-third year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Victoria intituled: "An Act to enable the Trustees of certain lands being the site for a Unitarian Church or School at Church Hill, Sydney, to dispose of and convey the same and to apply the proceeds of the sale in manner therein mentioned and for other purposes," it is recited, inter alia: (a) That two several pieces of land therein described were granted by grant from the Crown bearing date the nineteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, to certain Trustees therein named upon trust that the said pieces of land should at all times thereafter be set apart, maintained, and used for a site for the erection thereon of a chapel or school or both for the use of the people called Unitarians, and for no other purpose whatsoever And farther upon trust that the said Trustees, their heirs, and assigns should when thereunto required by the Governor for the time being convey and assure the said pieces of land unto and to the use of such other person or persons as should at the time be appointed by the said Governor in Council as Trustees in their place And farther upon other trusts therein mentioned, (b) That the said people called Unitarians held a chapel and other buildings on a certain parcel of land in Macquarie-street in the city of Sydney, (c) That the last-mentioned parcel of land, chapel, and buildings were vested in certain Trustees by Indenture, dated the nineteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, upon trust to permit and suffer the same from time to time, and for all time thereafter to be used for Divine service and all other congregational purposes by the said people, (d) That it would be beneficial to the said people that the said last-mentioned parcel should be sold and that the proceeds of such sale should be applied at the discretion of the Trustees of the said grant either to the purchase of other land eligible for the site of a chapel or school or improving the said chapel and buildings erected or built on the said land in Macquarie-street or in erecting a new chapel or other buildings, and (e) That certain of the Trustees therein named had died and that another had resigned and declined to act in the trusts of the said grant. And whereas the said lands were sold (in accordance with the provisions of the said Act) and out of the proceeds of such sale the lands described in Schedule A hereto were purchased and vested in certain trustees and a church and school building erected thereon being substantially the buildings now standing upon the said lands. And whereas in farther accordance with the provisions of the said Act, one, William Shaw being one of the Trustees and purporting to act under the powers contained in the said Act, appointed certain other Trustees in the place and stead of the others of the Trustees mentioned in the last preceding paragraph. And whereas doubts have arisen as to the validity of such appointments. And whereas it will be beneficial to the said Unitarian people to declare fully and effectually the trusts upon which are and shall be held the lands described in the said Schedule A hereto, and the buildings now erected or hereafter to be erected thereon, and the proceeds of the sale of the same or any part thereof and all property real or personal hereafter purchased, given, or acquired for Unitarian Church or School purposes and other purposes incidental thereto, and to appoint and provide for the farther appointment from time to time of Trustees of the said property with powers and subject to the obligation hereinafter set forth and to provide for the management of the temporal affairs of the said Unitarian people. Therefore, be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: