New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEWISHAM HOSPITAL AND CHURCH LANDS ACT 1934 - SECT 3

3 Trustees of hospital lands

(1) The Provincial Council of the Little Company of Mary for the Province of Australasia shall have power to appoint from time to time a new trustee to fill any vacancy which may occur in the office of a trustee of the land described in the First Schedule to this Act.

(2) Upon any appointment of a trustee made under subsection one of this section the property and estate in the lands described in the First Schedule to this Act shall without any conveyance vest in the persons who after such appointment are the trustees, as joint tenants, and shall be held by them upon the trusts set out in subsection two of section two of this Act.

(3) A certificate purporting to be signed by the Mother Provincial for the time being of the Little Company of Mary for the Province of Australasia stating that the persons named therein were at the date specified the trustees of the land described in the First Schedule to this Act shall in favour of a purchaser or mortgagee or the Registrar-General be conclusive evidence of the facts stated.

(4) For the purposes of section four of this Act and of subsections one, two and three of this section the land described in the First Schedule to this Act shall be deemed to include any land in the parish of Petersham, county of Cumberland, acquired in conjunction with the land described as aforesaid by the trustees for the time being of such last-mentioned land, and held by the trustees upon the trusts set out in subsection two of section two of this Act.