No stipend or allowance whatever shall be paid out of public moneys to any
minister of religion:
Provided that:
(a) every minister of religion who at the passing of this Act is in receipt of any yearly stipend or allowance paid out of any public fund or moneys shall, so long as he or she officiates as such minister under lawful authority in New South Wales, continue to receive such stipend or allowance,
(b) nothing herein shall prejudice the claim of any minister of religion to receive a stipend as chaplain of a gaol or other penal establishment.