New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH TRUST PROPERTY ACT 1936 - SECT 9A

9A Additional powers of bodies corporate

(1) Every body corporate created by this Act shall have power from time to time:

(a) to apply for and obtain representation of the estate of any deceased person being an ordained clergyman of the Church of whose will such body corporate is the executor, or being a person under whose will the Church or any part thereof (not being a body corporate constituted by or under the Roman Catholic Church Communities’ Lands Act 1942 , as amended by subsequent Acts) or such body corporate is a beneficiary, and

(b) to accept appointment and act as trustee under and in pursuance of any trust created wholly or partially for the benefit of the Church or any such part thereof or such body corporate over or in respect of any property real or personal,

and to do all things necessary to administer such estate or trust.

(2) Any officer authorised for the purpose by the body corporate may on behalf of the body corporate swear affidavits, make declarations, statements of defence or other statements, give security and do any other act or thing required by any Charter, Act of Parliament or rule of court to be made by persons making application for probate or letters of administration or administering any trust.

(3) Whenever the body corporate shall have been appointed executor, administrator or trustee it shall be subject in all respects to the same control and to removal or restraint from acting and generally to the jurisdiction of the courts in the same manner as any other executor, administrator or trustee and all the property real and personal of the body corporate and the members thereof and their respective estates shall be liable for the proper discharge of the duties of such office.