New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GREAT SYNAGOGUE, SYDNEY, ACT 1931 - NOTES

Reprint history (since 1972):

Reprint No 1   25 February 1982  

WHEREAS under any by virtue of an Act of the State of New South Wales then Colony of New South Wales passed in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two and intituled “ Jewish Synagogue and Schools Act of 1872 ” certain lands described in Schedules A, B, and C thereto were vested in Trustees upon the trusts and for the purposes therein declared of and concerning the same all of which trusts and purposes have long since been duly observed and performed. And whereas under and by virtue of the same Act certain other lands described in Schedule D of the said Act and which lands are comprised in certificate of title dated the twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one under the Real Property Act 1900 registered volume 117, folio 77, were vested in and declared to be held by Trustees upon trust as a site for the erection thereon of a Synagogue building or buildings as therein mentioned and from and after the erection of such building or buildings and the consecration of the said Synagogue it was provided that the said land hereditaments and premises should subject as therein provided be held upon trust as a Synagogue for the members of the Jewish Community of New South Wales and for the performance of public worship therein by members of the Jewish Faith subject to the direction and control and subject to the laws and regulations made from time to time by the Board of Management for the time being of the said Synagogue to be elected (after the first election thereinafter provided for) by the seat holders thereof in accordance with such laws and regulations. And whereas by the said Act it was provided that any school house and premises provided in connection with such Synagogue should be held in trust for the purposes of a Jewish School, subject to the immediate control of the duly constituted local Board of the Jewish Denominational School in Sydney or in the district of the city of Sydney within which the said premises might be situate and subject to the regulations for the time being of the said Board in accordance with the Public Schools Act 30 Vic No 22, and subject in all respects to the regulations of the Council of Education appointed under the said Act, and in the event of there being at any time no certified Jewish Denominational School in Sydney then such school premises should be held in trust for the purposes of a Jewish School subject to any regulations which might be made from time to time by subscribers of the Jewish Faith in support thereof. And whereas pursuant to the provisions of the said Jewish Synagogue and Schools Act of 1872 there has been erected on the land comprised in the said certificate of title, volume 117, folio 77, a Synagogue now and for some years past known as The Great Synagogue Sydney and also a school-house and premises provided in connection therewith. And whereas the Public Schools Act 30 Vic No 22 was repealed by the Act 43 Vic No 23. And whereas on the passing of that Act the then existing Jewish Denominational School became abolished and no certified Jewish Denominational School has since existed in Sydney. And whereas George Judah Cohen, John Jacob Cohen, and Orwell Phillips are the present Trustees of the lands hereditaments and premises comprised in the said certificate of title, volume 117, folio 77, but have no power to sell grant convey demise or otherwise dispose of either absolutely or by way of mortgage or otherwise howsoever the said lands hereditaments and premises. And whereas the said George Judah Cohen, John Jacob Cohen, and Orwell Phillips are also the trustees of the lands and hereditaments comprised in certificate of title, volume 1,261, folio 125, but upon trust for the persons who are members of and constitute the body association or society known as The Great Synagogue, Sydney. And whereas it is expedient to remodel the trusts upon which the said lands hereditaments and premises comprised in both the said certificates of title are held:

Be it therefore enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows:

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