Act No. 454 (Vic)

Version No. 001

Act No. 454

Act No. 454/1873

Version incorporating amendments as at 17 August 2001

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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1.Assembly may define certain expressions

2.Assembly may provide for appointment deposition deprivation and removal of any person bearing office

3.Certified copy to be evidence

4.Act to be read as part of 18 Vict. No. 45

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1.  General Information

2.  Table of Amendments

3.  Explanatory Details

Version No. 001

Act No. 454

Act No. 454/1873

Version incorporating amendments as at 17 August 2001

An Act to amend an Act intituled "An Act to enable the Bishops Clergy and Laity of the United Church of England and Ireland in Victoria to provide for the regulation of the affairs of the said Church.

Preamble

WHEREAS an Act of His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria and the Legislative Council thereof was passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria intituled "An Act to enable the Bishops Clergy and Laity of the United Church of England and Ireland in Victoria to provide for the regulation of the affairs of the said Church," and whereas the expression "the United Church of England and Ireland" is no longer applicable in Victoria, and doubts have arisen as to the powers of the members of the said church to regulate their own affairs:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows:

1.Assembly may define certain expressions

It shall be lawful for any assembly convened under the provisions contained in the said Act to define for the purposes of the said Act the meaning of the words "Bishop" and "Diocese," and to substitute for the expression "United Church of England and Ireland" where used in the said Act such other word or words as to such assembly shall seem desirable.

2.Assembly may provide for appointment deposition deprivation and removal of any person bearing office

It shall be lawful for any such assembly of the said church to make provision for the appointment deposition deprivation or removal of any person bearing office in the said Church of whatsoever order or degree, any rights of the Crown to the contrary notwithstanding.

3.Certified copy to be evidence

Any written or printed document purporting to be a copy of any regulation act or resolution of any such assembly if purporting to be certified as a true copy by any person described as the president of any such assembly shall be primâ facie evidence that such regulation act or resolution was duly made or passed, and no such regulation act or resolution shall be vitiated by reason of any informality in the mode of convening such assembly or in the election or summoning or by the failure to elect any member of such assembly or the absence of any members who may have been elected or summoned.

4.Act to be read as part of 18 Vict. No. 45

This Act shall be read with and taken to be part of the Act eighteen Victoria No. XLV, and both shall be construed together.

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ENDNOTES

1.     General Information

Act No. 454 was assented to on 13 June 1873 and came into operation on 13 June 1873.

2.     Table of Amendments

This Version incorporates amendments made to the Act No. 454 by Acts and subordinate instruments.

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Church of England Act 1904, No. 1947/1904

Assent Date:	30.11.04
Commencement Date:	30.11.04
Current State:	All of Act in operation

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3.     Explanatory Details

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