New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (CORPORATIONS) ACT 1995 - SECT 16

16 Evidence

(1) A certificate under the seal of a corporation to the effect that property specified in the certificate is vested in the corporation in trust for:

(a) the Church generally, or

(b) any congregation of the Church, or

(c) the purposes of an activity, fund, service, institution or interest of the Church,

is, in any legal proceedings, prima facie evidence of the matters so certified.

(2) A certificate under the seal of a corporation to the effect that the estate or interest of a person specified in the certificate in land so specified is an estate or interest vested in the corporation by this Act is, for the purposes of any application by the corporation to be registered under the Real Property Act 1900 as the proprietor of that estate or interest pursuant to the vesting, prima facie evidence of the matters so certified.