The Presbyterian Church (New South Wales) Property Trust Act 1936 (NSW)

The Presbyterian Church (New South Wales) Property Trust Act 1936 (Private Act)

An Act to provide for the regulation, management and control of the temporal affairs of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in the State of New South Wales, and to repeal the Presbyterian Church Property Consolidation Act of 1904.

Preamble WHEREAS the temporal affairs of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in the State of New South Wales are regulated by the "Presbyterian Church Property Consolidation Act of 1904" AND WHEREAS such Act has been found not sufficiently wide to cover the present activities of the Church AND WHEREAS it is expedient in relation to the said Church to define clearly the rights of Ministers to the proportion of rents of glebe lands which they are to receive in augmentation of their stipends also to make provision for claims in respect of resumptions differentiating between properties belonging to congregations and those held by the corporate trustees for general Church purposes also to alter the personalities of the persons eligible to act as trustees so as to permit business knowledge and attainments to be secured in a greater ratio than are under the present rules of appointment procurable also to increase the number of trustees to enable a quorum to be readily assured in cases of urgent as well as ordinary business and also to empower the General Assembly to appoint Boards and Directors and Committees to carry on schools and various activities of the Church and to grant constitutions for all such and to alter and amend all or any of such constitutions also to make such provisions as may be requisite to enable the General Assembly to determine what trusts and gifts owing to rearrangement of any of the Church's activities and services may be found to be unnecessary of continuance ineffective or impossible of further usefulness and to provide for the user of any property theretofore held for any of such purposes in other and as far as possible similar Church work whether religious educational or charitable the discretion of the General Assembly to be exercised after consultation with each particular interested Presbytery within the bounds also to make clear provision for the receipts of the corporate trustees operating as complete discharges for any legacies and gifts to the Church generally and any service activity or purpose of the Church or any particular congregation also to provide for the complete sufficiency of the certificate of the Clerk of the Assembly as to all necessary consents having been given and formalities observed in relation to all dealings with property of the Church whether congregational or general also to make provision for the election of trustees to fill vacancies in the trusteeship and generally to remove anomalies questions and difficulties in administration relating to property according to the rules enunciated in the Church code which have in practice been found to exist or arise under the present state of the law AND WHEREAS it is expedient to repeal the said Act and to provide for the matters hereinbefore referred to: 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: