Grants for Public Worship Prohibition Act of 1862 No 29a (NSW)

ANNO VICESIMO SEXTO

V I C T O R I A R E G I N A .

No. XIX.

An Act to prohibit future grants of Public Money

in aid of Public Worship.	[Beserved—20th
December, 1862.]

" W H E R E A S it is expedient to prohibit future grants of money

from the Public Funds in aid of Public Worship Be it there­

fore enacted by the Queen'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 :—

1 . So much as is inconsistent with this Act of the Act seventh

William the Fourth number three and of the forty-ninth and fiftieth sections of the Constitution Act assented to by Her Majesty under the Imperial Act eighteenth and nineteenth Victoria chapter fifty- four as relates to Schedule C annexed to the said Act is hereby repealed and subject only to the payments reserved and authorized by this Act so long as the same shall remain payable the said Schedule shall also be repealed.

5. This Act shall be styled and may be cited as the " Grants for Public Worship Prohibition Act of 1862?' No. XX.

2. No stipend or allowance whatever shall be paid out of public moneys after the passing of this Act to any Minister of Religion not then in receipt of some such stipend or allowance.
3. 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 shall officiate as such Minister under lawful authority within the Colony continue to receive such stipend or allowance.

4. Nothing herein shall prejudice the claim of any Minister of Religion to receive a stipend as Chaplain of a Gaol or other Penal Establishment.