New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BAPTIST CHURCHES OF NEW SOUTH WALES PROPERTY TRUST ACT 1984 - SECT 35

35 Evidence

(1) A certificate under the common seal of the Trust to the effect that property therein specified is held by it upon trust for the Baptist Union, a committee or agency of the Baptist Union or for any Baptist Church or District Association shall, in any action, suit or other proceeding, civil or criminal, be prima facie evidence that the property so specified is so held.

(2) A certificate under the common seal of the Trust to the effect that the estate or interest of persons therein specified in land so specified is an estate or interest vested in the Trust by this Act shall, for the purposes of any application by the Trust to be registered under the Real Property Act 1900 , as the proprietor of that estate or interest pursuant to that vesting, be conclusive evidence of the matter so certified.

(3) A certificate signed by the President of the Baptist Union and 2 members of the Executive Committee to the effect that the Executive Committee has determined:

(a) that an object described in the certificate is a general object of the Baptist Union within the meaning of section 22,

(b) that the boundaries of a district are as described in the certificate,

(c) that property specified in the certificate is within a district so described,

(d) that a congregation so described is or is not in existence or has been dissolved or dispersed, or

(e) that a congregation so described consists of less than 10 members,

at a time specified in the certificate shall, for the purposes of this Act, be conclusive evidence of the matter referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) which is expressed in the certificate as having been so determined.