New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH PROPERTY TRUST ACT 1993 - SECT 5

5 New dioceses

(1) On the creation of a diocese after the commencement of this Act, the Bishop of the diocese so created and the Bishop of any diocese out of which the diocese is so created are required, by notification signed by them and published in the Gazette, to announce the creation of the diocese, and its name.

(2) A printed paper purporting to be a copy of the Gazette, and to have been printed by the Government Printer, and containing what purports to be a copy of a notification published pursuant to subsection (1), is conclusive evidence of the creation of a new diocese.

(3) A diocese is not to be extinguished by the creation wholly or partly out of the diocese of a new diocese or by any other alteration of its boundaries.