New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ANGLICAN CHURCH OF AUSTRALIA TRUST PROPERTY ACT 1917 - SECT 3

3 Amendment

(1) Sections 5 and 7 of the Anglican Church of Australia Constitutions Act 1902 and clauses 3 and 6 of the Schedule to the said Act and all Acts and parts of Acts relating to church trust property shall, so far as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act, be read as amended and supplemented by this Act.

(2) In the case of the Diocese of Sydney the following subsections shall apply:

(a) The present members of the council referred to in Saint James’ School Compensation Trust Act, assented to the twenty-seventh day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, and such persons as shall from time to time be members of the said council, including the Archbishop of Sydney for the time being as ex officio president, shall be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of “Sydney Church of England Grammar School Council”, and by such name they shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall sue and be sued, or shall otherwise appear and answer and be answered, and may take and hold to them and their successors by grant, will, or otherwise, any real or personal property, and for any estate or interest therein.

(b) All property real and personal which immediately before the passing of this Act was vested in any person or persons other than the Church of England Property Trust Diocese of Sydney upon any trust for the purposes of the school referred to in the said Saint James’ School Compensation Trust Act shall by virtue of this Act and without any other instrument vest in the said body constituted by subsection (a) upon the same trusts respectively for the purposes of the said school upon which the said property was held immediately before the passing of this Act, and it shall be lawful for the Church of England Property Trust Diocese of Sydney by deed or deeds under its corporate seal to assign and transfer to the said body constituted by subsection (a) at one time or from time to time all or any part or parts of other real and personal property now or hereafter to be held by the said church property trust upon any trust for the purposes of the said school.