New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ANGLICAN CHURCH OF AUSTRALIA TRUST PROPERTY ACT 1917 - SECT 39

39 Delegation of powers etc of bishop by ordinance

During the absence of a bishop as aforesaid and in cases where no commissary is appointed as aforesaid or some only of such powers, functions, and things are referred to in the appointment of such commissary, or during the incapacity of a bishop of a diocese arising from illness or any cause other than such absence as aforesaid, or during a vacancy in the see, the person or persons appointed for the purpose or purposes by ordinance of the synod of such diocese or in default of such ordinance or so far as the same shall not extend to any of such purposes the person next in ecclesiastical rank or degree in such diocese and resident therein may exercise all the powers and functions and do and make all the things referred to in this Act or such of them as are not referred to in any such appointment of a commissary as aforesaid, as the case may be, in the place of such bishop.