New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AUSTRALIA CONSOLIDATED TRUST ACT 1994 - SECT 21

21 Vesting of property in the Trust after the appointed day

(1) This section applies to:

(a) an instrument (including a will) that takes effect on or after the appointed day, or

(b) articles of association of a corporation under which the winding up of the corporation commences on or after the appointed day,

if the Trust by resolution declares that the section applies to that instrument or to those articles of association.

(2) To the extent to which any property:

(a) is given to the Church or to a person (other than the Trust) for the benefit of the Church, or

(b) is payable to, or receivable by, the Church or any person (other than the Trust) on behalf of the Church, or

(c) is recoverable by the Church or by any person (other than the Trust) for the Church, or

(d) would, on the winding up of any corporation operating within the Church or under the auspices of the Church, have been given to the company if the company had not been dissolved,

by or under an instrument, or any articles of association, to which this section applies, a reference in the instrument or articles to the Church, the company or that person, is to be treated as a reference to the Trust.

(3) In this section, "Church" includes the Archdiocese and His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch in Constantinople (Istanbul).