New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ANGLICAN CHURCH OF AUSTRALIA (BODIES CORPORATE) ACT 1938 - SECT 10

10 Powers of Synod

(1) The constitution by or under this Act of a body corporate shall not prejudice or in any way affect the power of the Synod of the diocese at whose instance the body corporate was constituted, to make ordinances for or with respect to the institution or organisation for the management, government or control of which the body corporate was constituted or for or with respect to any church trust property vested in the body corporate.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) the Synod of a diocese at whose instance a body corporate is constituted may, from time to time, by ordinance:

(a) change the name of such body corporate,

(b) fix the number of members of such body corporate, prescribe the method of election or appointment and of retirement of such members and prescribe the circumstances in which a vacancy in the office of any such member shall occur.