Presbyterian Synod of Victoria Act 1867 (Vic)

Version No. 001

Presbyterian Synod of Victoria Act 1867

Act No. 321/1867

Version as at 26 February 2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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1.Presbyterian Church of Victoria

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SCHEDULE

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ENDNOTES

1.  General Information

2.  Table of Amendments

3.  Explanatory Details

Version No. 001

Presbyterian Synod of Victoria Act 1867

Act No. 321/1867

Version as at 26 February 2003

An Act to amend the Act 22 Victoria No. 82 intituled "An Act to amend an Act intituled 'An Act to regulate the temporal affairs of the Synod of Victoria, and to amend the law relating thereto,' and for other purposes therein mentioned."

Preamble

WHEREAS by the Act 22 Victoria No. 82 it was enacted that all hereditaments estates temporal privileges and all equitable rights belonging to the various synods therein named, as uniting in the Presbyterian Church of Victoria and the congregations thereof respectively, should belong to the Presbyterian Church of Victoria and to the several congregations thereof, subject to the decisions and judicatories of the said church only:

AND WHEREAS by section 3 of the said Act it was enacted that nothing therein contained should affect or be construed to affect in any way any hereditaments estates temporal privileges or equitable rights of any office bearer or congregation of any section of the Presbyterian denomination declining to join the said Presbyterian Church of Victoria; and it was enacted that the properties enumerated in the Schedule appended to that Act should be and the same thereby were excepted from the operation of that Act as belonging to the congregations under the jurisdiction of the synod of which the Reverend William Miller was then the moderator:

AND WHEREAS the synod so described, and which was then known as the synod of the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria, has since the passing of the said Act acquired other properties than those enumerated in the said Schedule:

AND WHEREAS the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria on the thirteenth day of November last passed an Act declaratory of the articles of union referred to in the said Act No. 82, which declaratory Act has been adopted by that synod of the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria of which the Reverend Donald Meiklejohn was at the time of such adoption the moderator:

AND WHEREAS the said Synod and the office bearers and congregations thereof, are now desirous of uniting with the Presbyterian Church of Victoria:

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the properties enumerated in the Schedule to this Act now belonging to the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria, and the several congregations thereof should be brought under the operation of the said recited Act:

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

1.Presbyterian Church of Victoria[1]

So soon as the said synod of the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria and the office bearers and congregations under its spiritual superintendence shall have united with the Presbyterian Church of Victoria (of which union notice published in the Government Gazette purporting to be signed by the moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria shall be conclusive evidence), the properties enumerated in the Schedule to this Act, and all hereditaments estates and temporal privileges, and all equitable rights of in or to or in connection with the said properties or any of them, belonging to the said Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria and the office bearers and congregations thereof respectively, shall belong to the said Presbyterian Church of Victoria and to the several congregations thereof, and shall continue to be administered in terms and according to the provisions of the Acts deeds or instruments under which the same hereditaments estates temporal privileges and equitable rights have accrued to the said Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria and congregations, subject to the decisions and judicatories of the said Presbyterian Church of Victoria only.

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THE SCHEDULE

1.The property at the corner of Swanston street and Little Lonsdale street east, belonging to John Knox's congregation, mortgaged for one thousand five hundred pounds and eight hundred pounds respectively.

2.The land with school buildings, at Euroke, given by G. S. Brodie, Esquire.

3.The lands at Brunswick, with church, manse, and school buildings, the property of the congregation of which the Reverend Allan McVean is minister.

4.Allotments 1, 2, 3, 4, of section 6, of township of Wallan-wallan.

5.The lands at Kilmore, with church, manse, and school buildings thereon erected, the property of the congregation of which the late Reverend Andw. Maxwell was the minister.

6.The lands at East Bellarine, with the buildings erected thereon.

7.The land within the borough of Portland given by Wm. M. Bell.

8.Part of portion No. 143 of the Parish of Jika-jika, in the County of Bourke, with the church thereon erected, belonging to the congregation of which the Reverend John Cooper is the minister.

9.The land situate at Broadmeadows purchased by the late Reverend James Forbes from Michael Lynch.

10.The land at Broadford, with church buildings thereon.

11.The land at Connewarre, with church buildings thereon erected, the property of the congregation of which the Reverend John Gardiner is the minister.

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ENDNOTES

1.     General Information

Presbyterian Synod of Victoria Act 1867 was assented to on 6 September 1867 and came into operation on 6 September 1867.

2.     Table of Amendments

There are no amendments to Presbyterian Synod of Victoria Act 1867 by Acts and subordinate instruments.

3.     Explanatory Details

[1] The citation for this Act is 'No. CCCXXI. An Act to amend the Act 22 Victoria No. 82 intituled "An Act to amend an Act intituled 'An Act to regulate the temporal affairs of the Synod of Victoria, and to amend the law relating thereto,' and for other purposes therein mentioned." '