New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH TRUST PROPERTY ACT 1936 - SECT 4A

4A Change of name of body corporate--Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn

(1) As from the commencement of the Roman Catholic Church Trust Property (Amendment) Act 1950 --

(a) the corporate name of the body corporate constituted by section 4 under the corporate name of the trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Diocese of Goulburn shall be the trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn,

(b) a reference in any Act or other instrument to the Diocese of Goulburn or to the trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Diocese of Goulburn shall be read and construed as a reference to the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn or to the trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn, as the case may be.

(2) Nothing contained in the Roman Catholic Church Trust Property (Amendment) Act 1950 shall prejudice or affect in any way the continuity of the body corporate referred to in subsection (1), but the same shall continue notwithstanding the provisions of the said Act.

(3) The alteration of name effected by subsection (1) shall not affect any property, powers, rights, authorities, duties, functions, liabilities or obligations of the body corporate referred to in subsection (1), or render defective any legal or other proceedings instituted or to be instituted by or against the said body corporate.
Any legal or other proceedings may be continued or commenced by or against the corporation by the name of the trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn that might have been continued or commenced by or against the corporation by the name of the trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Diocese of Goulburn.