Victorian Consolidated Legislation

WESLEYAN METHODISTS INDEPENDENTS AND BAPTISTS ACT 1838

Act No. 7/1838
Version as at 24 February 2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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           Trustees to be appointed under the provisions of 7 Wm. IV No. 3.
   2.      Registrar of Supreme Court to enrol model deed of conveyance and trust whenever presented
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   1.      General Information
   2.      Table of Amendments
   3.      Explanatory Details
           Trustees to be appointed under the provisions of 7 Wm. IV No. 3
           That so soon as any chapel or chapel and minister's dwelling belonging to the aforesaid societies respectively shall be erected it shall and may be lawful for the trustees or the survivor of them or the heirs of such survivor who shall be appointed in pursuance of the Act hereinbefore recited and he and they are hereby authorized and required at the request in writing of any three or more of the subscribers to the undertaking or of any three or more of the members of the society or denomination for whom the said chapel was erected to convey the said trust premises with any lands or hereditaments thereunto belonging to any number of trustees to be nominated and elected according to the usages of such society as aforesaid not being less than three and to their heirs to hold the real estate of and in the same hereditaments to the use of such society upon the trusts stated and set forth in a model deed of such society to be enrolled in the Supreme Court of New South Wales within two years after the passing of this Act after the same shall have been proved to the satisfaction of His Excellency the Governor and the Executive Council3 to be a deed recognized and established by the usages of the religious society to which it professes to belong:
           Provided always that if the original trustees or the survivor of them or the heirs or such survivor shall leave the Colony of New South Wales or shall become either naturally or legally incapacitated to act or shall neglect or refuse to make such conveyance for six calendar months after such requisition as aforesaid then in any of such cases the fee simple of the trust estate shall pass from the said original trustees or the survivor of them or the heirs of such survivor to the Registrar for the time being of the Supreme Court of New South Wales who is hereby authorized and required forthwith to make a proper conveyance of the said trust estate to the new trustees in manner above set forth.