Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated ActsPreamble
1 Whereas pursuant to trusts in terms of the schedule of trusts set out in the model trust deed adopted at the annual meeting of the Queensland Congregational Union held at Goodna in the State on 19 October 1880, the corporation of 'The President Secretary and Treasurer of the Queensland Congregational Union', a corporation duly constituted under the Religious Educational and Charitable Institutions Act 1861 holds, and has held for considerable periods of time, certain moneys that are the proceeds of the sale of certain lands and premises at one time held by the corporation on behalf of churches of the Congregational Order existing at Charters Towers, Imbil, Maryborough, Roma and Tinana, respectively, in the said State.
2 And whereas the said corporation holds or purports to hold and has held or has purported to hold for a considerable period of time on trust for the Congregational Church and its welfare and extension moneys that are the proceeds of the sale, by the local trustees thereof with the consent of the Queensland Congregational Union, of the lands and premises of a church of the Congregational Order at Charters Towers, formerly the Charters Towers Welsh Church which about the year 1919 applied for and was granted admission as a Congregational Church within the Queensland Congregational Union.
3 And whereas the said churches at Charters Towers, Imbil, Maryborough, Roma and Tinana have been closed without directions having been given under the trusts thereof in terms of the said schedule of trusts or under any other trusts applicable thereto as to the application of the said proceeds of sale.
4 And whereas it is desirable and expedient that provision be made to authorise the said corporation to apply the said moneys and any other moneys that may hereafter be held by the corporation under trusts in terms of the said schedule of trusts that are the proceeds of the sale of lands and premises held by the corporation at or before the commencement of this Act on behalf of churches that are hereafter closed without directions as to the application of such moneys having been given in accordance with the said trusts.
5 And whereas in the case of lands and premises held at the date of the commencement of this Act by the corporation under trusts in terms of the said schedule of trusts, the proceeds of the sale thereof may be laid out, at the direction of the church on whose behalf those lands and premises were held, in or towards the erection or purchase of other chapel land and premises (the same being situated within 20 miles of the land and premises sold as provided in the trusts thereof).
6 And whereas it is desirable and expedient that the church on whose behalf the proceeds of sale of land and premises are held be authorised to direct, with the approval of the executive committee of the Queensland Congregational Union, the laying out of those proceeds for certain purposes anywhere in the State although not appertaining to a place situate within 20 miles of the land and premises from the sale of which those proceeds arise.