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ANGLICAN CHURCH OF AUSTRALIA CONSTITUTIONS ACT 1902 - NOTES

- As at 11 February 1994 - Act aca of 1902

Church of England Constitutions Act Amendment Act of 1902

Reprint history (since 1972):

Reprint No 1   3 December 1979  

Preamble

WHEREAS by an ordinance duly passed by the Church of England Provincial Synod of the Province of New South Wales, intituled the Amendment of Constitutions Application Ordinance of 1895, it was ordained and ruled that application should be made to Parliament to pass an Act to repeal the Act thirty Victoria, intituled An Act to enable the members of the United Church of England and Ireland in New South Wales to manage the property of the said Church, assented to on the fourth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, but without prejudice to anything done under the said Act before the repeal thereof, and to authorise the substitution in all statutes, acts, grants, deeds, and other instruments of the name Church of England for the name hitherto used of United Church of England and Ireland, and to give legal force and effect to certain constitutions contained in the Schedule to the said ordinance now in recital: And whereas the executive committee of the said Synod were, by the said ordinance now in recital, authorised and empowered to carry into effect the provisions of the same so soon as the Metropolitan should have reported to them that every diocese in the said Province had accepted the same: And whereas every diocese in the said Province has accepted the said ordinance, and the Metropolitan has so reported to the said executive committee: and whereas legal force and effect cannot be given to the said constitutions so far as regards the management of the property of the Church of England without the aid of the Legislature in the manner hereinafter provided: And whereas the constitutions contained in the Schedule to the said ordinance are embodied and contained in the Schedule to this Act:

Be it therefore enacted by the King’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:

Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Am amended LW legislation website Sch Schedule
Cl clause No number Schs Schedules
Cll clauses p page Sec section
Div Division pp pages Secs sections
Divs Divisions Reg Regulation Subdiv Subdivision
GG Government Gazette Regs Regulations Subdivs Subdivisions
Ins inserted Rep repealed Subst substituted
See also Anglican Church of Australia Constitution Act 1961.

Table of amending instruments

Anglican Church of Australia Constitutions Act 1902 (formerly Church of England Constitutions Act Amendment Act of 1902). Assented to 24.12.1902. This Act has been amended as follows:

1972 No 48 Reprints Act 1972. Assented to 9.10.1972.
1976 No 12 Anglican Church of Australia Constitutions (Amendment) Act 1976 (formerly Church of England Constitutions (Amendment) Act 1976). Assented to 31.3.1976.
Amended by Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1984 No 153. Assented to 10.12.1984.
No 21 Anglican Church of Australia Act 1976. Assented to 1.4.1976.
A proclamation was published in Gazette No 139 of 18.9.1981, p 4892, specifying 24.8.1981, as the date of commencement of Sch 2. Sch 2 was taken to have commenced on 18.9.1981.

Table of amendments

No reference is made to certain amendments made by the Reprints Act 1972.

Sec 1 Subst 1976 No 21, Sch 2.
Schedule Am 1976 No 12, Sch 1 (am 1984 No 153, Sch 16).