Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Lutheran Church of Australia Victorian District Incorporation Act 1971 - SECT 4

Incorporation

4. Incorporation

     There shall be a body corporate by the name "Lutheran Church of Australia Victorian District" consisting of all members at the passing of this Act of the body corporate known as the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Australia Victoria District which was incorporated as recited in the preamble of this Act and all members at the passing of this Act of the body corporate known as The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia (Victorian District) which was incorporated as recited in the preamble of this Act and all persons in the State of Victoria and elsewhere who from time to time in accordance with the Constitution for the time being of the Church accept as their general tenets the doctrines set forth in Clause II of the First Schedule and the said body corporate shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and under the name
Lutheran Church of Australia Victorian District may sue and be sued prosecute
and defend and take and suffer all the proceedings in all courts.