New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BAPTIST CHURCHES OF NEW SOUTH WALES PROPERTY TRUST ACT 1984 - SECT 29A

29A Dissolution or dispersal of an organisation

(1) In this section:
"organisation" means a society, District Association or other unincorporated association of persons (including a committee or agency of the Baptist Union but not including a congregation) that is or was established in a district in which trust property is situated (or, in the case of a committee or agency of the Baptist Union, that is or was established in New South Wales).

(2) This section applies to an organisation that (whether before or after the commencement of this section):

(a) is dissolved or dispersed so that there are no members meeting in respect of that district for the purposes of the organisation (or, in the case of a committee or agency of the Baptist Union, in New South Wales), or

(b) in the case of a District Association, decreases its membership to fewer than 4 Baptist Churches.

(3) The Baptist Union has and may exercise all of the functions with respect to trust property which an organisation to which this section applies might have exercised before it became an organisation to which this section applies.

(4) This section ceases to apply to an organisation if:

(a) in the case of an organisation referred to in subsection (2) (a)-the organisation is again formed in the district (or, in the case of a committee or agency of the Baptist Union, in New South Wales), or

(b) in the case of a District Association-the District Association increases its membership to 4 or more Baptist Churches.

(5) Subsection (3) does not authorise the Baptist Union to direct the Trust to sell or dispose of (and the Trust must not sell or dispose of) any trust property on behalf of an organisation to which this section applies:

(a) if the organisation is dissolved or dispersed, until the expiration of 6 months after the dissolution or dispersal, or

(b) if a District Association decreased its membership to fewer than 4 Baptist Churches:

(i) until the expiration of a period of 2 years during which the District Association consists of fewer than 4 Baptist Churches, or

(ii) unless all members of the District Association consent to the sale or disposition before the expiration of that period.