New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ANGLICAN CHURCH OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 - SECT 6

6 Offence

(1) After the expiration of six months after the day appointed and notified under section 2 (2), a person shall not, for the purposes of, or in connection with, any business, trade or profession use or cause or permit to be used:

(a) the name “Church of England”, “Church of England in Australia” or “Anglican Church of Australia”, or

(b) the description “Anglican”,

whether that name or description is used with other words or not, unless he has been authorised so to do by or pursuant to a Canon of the General Synod of the Church of England in Australia or the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia.

Maximum penalty: 1 penalty unit.

(2) Subsection (1) does not operate to deprive the Anglican Church of Australia wholly or partly of any right or remedy that it would have had if that subsection had not been enacted.