New South Wales Consolidated Acts

UNITING CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA ACT 1977 - SECT 16

16 Casual vacancies

(1) Where the number of members of the Trust for the time being is reduced to less than five, the continuing members of the Trust shall appoint, as members of the Trust filling such of the vacancies as are casual vacancies in the offices of appointed members, until the end of the next annual meeting of the Synod, persons not fewer in number than that required to increase to five the number of members.

(2) Subject to subsection (1), where there is a casual vacancy in the office of an appointed member of the Trust, the continuing members of the Trust may appoint a person to fill the vacancy until the end of the next annual meeting of the Synod.