New South Wales Consolidated Acts

UNITING CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA ACT 1977 - SECT 12

12 Constitution of the Trust

(1) There is hereby constituted a corporation under the name of “The Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (N.S.W.)” which shall, subject to this Act, consist of:

(a) three official members, of whom:

(i) one shall be the person holding or acting in the office of Moderator of the Synod,

(ii) one shall be the person holding or acting in the office of Secretary of the Synod, and

(iii) one shall be the person holding or acting in the office of Property Officer of the Synod, and

(b) five other persons appointed by the Synod or, where:

(i) no appointment has been made to one or more of the offices referred to in paragraph (a), or

(ii) fewer than three persons have been appointed to hold all those offices,

six other persons so appointed.

(2) Subject to this Act, the Inaugurating Assembly shall appoint five persons as members of the Trust and the said five persons:

(a) shall be deemed to have been duly appointed pursuant to subsection (1) (b) as members of the Trust holding office as from the appointed day until the end of the annual meeting of the Synod next succeeding the appointed day, and

(b) shall be eligible for reappointment as members of the Trust.

(3) Subject to this Act, the members of the Trust appointed pursuant to subsection (1) (b) at a Synod after the appointed day:

(a) shall take office as members of the Trust immediately after the end of that Synod,

(b) shall hold office as members of the Trust until the end of the next annual meeting of the Synod, and

(c) shall be eligible for reappointment as members of the Trust.