Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANGLICAN CHURCH OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1895 - SECT 11

11 Power of bishop to execute transfer

(1) If any property which is by virtue of section 10 authorised to be transferred to the synod of a diocese cannot be so transferred by reason of any disability affecting any trustee thereof, or the trustee’s absence from the State, or the death of a sole trustee thereof, the bishop of the diocese may give notice of the bishop’s intention to join in executing, or to execute any transfer which such trustee could have executed if the trustee had been alive and present in the State and not subject to any such disability as aforesaid.

(2) Such notice shall be published in the gazette and in some newspaper circulating in the district in which such property is situated, and if within 1 month from the publication of such notice no proceedings be taken by a majority of the persons in whom such property is vested, the bishop may join in executing, or may execute such transfer accordingly.