Presbyterian Church Act 1908 (Tas)

Presbyterian Church Act 1908

An Act to amend the Presbyterian Church Act 1896 [Royal Assent 14 December 1908]

Whereas the members of the Presbyterian Church of Tasmania are desirous of having the trustees of the property of the said Church incorporated as a body corporate, having perpetual succession and a common seal, capable in their corporate name of suing and being sued, and of acquiring, holding, and alienating real and personal property of every kind: And whereas it is expedient to amend the Presbyterian Church Act 1896 :

Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Presbyterian Church Act 1908 .

2. Definition clause In this Act property, unless a contrary intention appears, shall extend to and include real and personal property, and any estate or interest in any property, real or personal, and any mortgage or other debt, and all securities for money, and anything in action, and all messuages, tenements, and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, of every kind and description (whatever may be the estate or interest therein), together with all paths, passages, ways, waters, watercourses, liberties, privileges, easements, plantations, gardens, mines, minerals, and quarries, and all trees and timber thereon or thereunder lying or being, unless the same are specially excepted.

3. Trustees a body corporate, &c. The trustees of the property of the Presbyterian Church of Tasmania shall be, and they are hereby created, a body corporate, having a perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall have and exercise all legal rights, powers, privileges, and authorities appendant and incidental to a body corporate; and shall, under their corporate name, be capable in law of suing and being sued, and of purchasing, acquiring, holding, and alienating property, and of doing and suffering all such other acts and things as bodies corporate may by law do and suffer.