New South Wales Consolidated Acts

UNITARIAN CHURCH ACT 1927 - SECT 21

21 Resolutions of the congregation

(a) A resolution of the congregation or of the committee shall be deemed to have been duly passed by a meeting of the congregation if it shall have been passed by a majority of the members of the congregation or committee respectively present at a meeting of the congregation or committee respectively which shall have been convened in accordance with the Rules.

(b) A resolution shall be deemed to be a special resolution if it has been passed by three-fourths or more of the members voting at a meeting of the congregation duly convened in accordance with the rules, and consisting of not less than 25 members of the congregation or, where the number of members of the congregation included in the register referred to in section 5 is less than 50, 15 members of the congregation, and confirmed by a similar majority present at a subsequent duly convened meeting of the congregation held not earlier than two weeks nor later than four weeks after the meeting at which such resolution shall have been passed.

(c) For the safety of the Trustees or the Trustee or of a person taking title from or paying money to or otherwise dealing with the Trustees or the Trustee the production of a copy certified under the hand of the president or vice-president or other person appointed by resolution of the committee for that purpose to be a copy of any resolution or special resolution of the congregation or the committee shall be deemed to be conclusive proof of the resolution or special resolution of which it purports to be a copy, and that all matters by this Act or by the Rules required to be done or observed prior to or as conditions of the passing of such resolution or special resolution have been done or observed, and that such resolution or special resolution has been duly passed and is in force at the date of such certification as aforesaid.