Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Church of Scotland Act 1840 - SECT 2

Administration of Church property

2. Administration of Church property

And be it enacted That all and every the real estate in all churches and
chapels ministers' dwellings burial grounds and glebe lands and the sites of
the same and in all other lands and hereditaments appertaining thereunto which
have heretofore been held or are now held by trustees appointed under the
provisions of the said recited Act in behalf of the several congregations
under the spiritual superintendence of the said Presbytery of New South Wales
or by the trustees of any church or churches in which it is required that
Divine service shall be performed by an ordained minister of the Church of
Scotland shall continue to be held by the same trustees and their successors
duly and lawfully appointed in behalf of the same congregations under the
spiritual and ecclesiastical superintendence of "The Synod of Australia in
connexion with the Established Church of Scotland" as fully and effectually in
all respects as if the said Synod were specially named in the said recited Act
and invested with all the powe rs privileges and advantages thereby conferred
on the Presbytery of New South Wales.