New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH PROPERTY TRUST ACT 1993 - SECT 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act--

"appointed day" means the day on which section 4 commences.

"Bishop" means the person for the time being administering a diocese, whether as Archbishop or Bishop, Hierarch or Exarch.

"Board" means the Board of Trustees referred to in section 4 (2).

"Church" means the Catholic and Apostolic Orthodox Church of Antioch, Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand, a part of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, a hierarchical religious body whose leader, overseer and shepherd is the Patriarch of the See of Antioch and all the East, and includes any Church entity.

"Church entity" means a body, corporate or unincorporate, established by the Church after the appointed day which--

(a) has objectives not inconsistent with those of the Church as set out in the constitution, and

(b) is certified in writing by a Bishop to be a Church entity for the purposes of this Act.

"Company" means any one or more of the companies limited by guarantee and incorporated in New South Wales under the names set out in Schedule 1.

"constitution" means the constitution of the Church approved by His Holiness Ignatius IV Patriarch of the See of Antioch and all the East, as amended from time to time, or any document for the time being approved by the Patriarch of the See of Antioch and all the East to replace that constitution.

"conveyance" includes transfer, assignment and assurance.

"Trust" means the Antiochian Orthodox Church Property Trust constituted by this Act.

"trust property" means property vested in or acquired by the Trust.

(2) In this Act--

(a) a reference to a function includes a reference to a power, authority and duty, and

(b) a reference to the exercise of a function includes, where the function is a duty, a reference to the performance of the duty.