New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (NSW) PROPERTY TRUST ACT 1991 - SECT 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act:
"Board" means the Board referred to in section 4.
"Church" or "Russian Orthodox Church" means the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.
"conveyance" includes transfer, assignment and assurance.
"Diocesan Council" means the Diocesan Council of the Diocese established in accordance with the Statute.
"Diocese" means the Australian and New Zealand Diocese of the Church. The Diocese is an inseparable part of the Church governed in accordance with the Statute.
"Parish" means a Parish within the Diocese, established in accordance with the Statute.
"Parish By-laws" means the by-laws governing a Parish in accordance with the Statute.
"property" means property in New South Wales.
"Ruling Bishop" means the Ruling Bishop for the time being of the Diocese appointed in accordance with the Statute.
"the Association" means the association incorporated in New South Wales under the name “The Trustees of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia in Australia”.
"the Statute" means the document entitled “Diocesan Statute of the Australian and New Zealand Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (in Exile) approved by the Bishops’ Synod of this Church at New York now known as the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia by the decisions of 27th February 1957, 22nd August 1957 and 24th March 1959”, as that document may from time to time be amended, and includes any document that may replace that document in accordance with the laws of the Church.
"Trust" means the Russian Orthodox Church (NSW) Property Trust constituted by this Act.
"trust property" means property held by the Trust.

(2) In this Act:

(a) a reference to a function includes a reference to a power, authority and duty, and

(b) a reference to the exercise of a function includes, where the function is a duty, a reference to the performance of the duty.

(3) This Act applies, and is taken always to have applied, only to property in New South Wales.