Methodist Church Act 1911 (NSW)

Act, 1911.

An Act to sanction and confirm the constitution of the New Zealand conference of the Methodist Church of Australasia as an inde- pendent conference ; and for other purposes. [26th October, 1911.]

\ J] MEREAS the Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand

is an integral portion of the Methodist Church of Australasia and is governed by an annual conference which is itself comprised in and governed by the general conference of the Methodist Church of Australasia: And whereas the general conference of the Methodist Church of Australasia, held at Adelaide in the year one thousand nine hundred and ten, unanimously consented to the constitution of the said annual conference of the Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand as an independent conference with the powers contained in and in accordance with and upon and subject to a plan of independence which is fully set forth in the printed minutes of the said general conference subject to the consent of cach of the annual conferences of the said Methodist Church of Australasia, namely, the New South Wales conference, the Victoria and 'Tasmania conference, the South Australia conference, the New Zealand conference, the Queensland conference, and the Western Australia conference, and the sanction of the Parliament of each of the Australian States and New Zealand: And whereas each of the said conferences has agreed to the constitution of the said New Zealand annual conference as an independent conference in accordance with the plan aforesaid: And whereas in the Methodist Church Property Acts, 1889-1902, of the State of New South Wales, and in the Methodist model deed of New South Wales (as by the said Acts or either of them altered and modified) and in the Book of Laws referred to in the said mode] deed the said Methodist Church in New Zealand is referred to either expressly or by implication as forming an integral portion of the Methodist Church of Australasia, and the said New Zealand conference is referred to as one of the conferences comprised in and governed by the general conference of the Methodist Church of Australasia: Beit 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 :—