Grants for Public Worship Prohibition Act 1902 (NSW)

An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to grants of public money in aid of public worship.

1Name of Act

This Act may be cited as the Grants for Public Worship Prohibition Act 1902.

2Repeal

The Grants for Public Worship Prohibition Act of 1862 is hereby repealed.

3Grants for public worship prohibited

No stipend or allowance whatever shall be paid out of public moneys to any minister of religion:

Provided that:

• (a)

  every minister of religion who at the passing of this Act is in receipt of any yearly stipend or allowance paid out of any public fund or moneys shall, so long as he or she officiates as such minister under lawful authority in New South Wales, continue to receive such stipend or allowance,

• (b)

  nothing herein shall prejudice the claim of any minister of religion to receive a stipend as chaplain of a gaol or other penal establishment.