Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current ActsIn this Act the following terms shall if not inconsistent with the context have the meanings hereinafter respectively assigned to them—
"bishop" or "bishop of a diocese" shall mean as to the term "bishop" the bishop registered under the title of "bishop" under the provisions of the " Successory Trusts Act 1878 " as head of the Church of England in the portion of Victoria described in the certificate of registrations, and shall include the administrator of the affairs of the dioceses during the vacancy of the see; and the term "diocese" shall mean the portion of Victoria described in such certificate as the diocese of the person so registered;
S. 1 def. of "Church" amended by No. 56/2000 s. 9(a).
"Church" shall be taken to designate and apply to the Church now known as the Anglican Church of Australia in Victoria;
"property" shall mean land promised or reserved by the Crown for any of the purposes of the said Church and all property real or personal including money or securities for money held by or vested or purporting to be vested in or claimable by any person or persons either in trust generally for the said Church or for any special purpose in connexion therewith or for the benefit or use of the members thereof as such or of any person or persons holding for the time being office therein;
S. 1 def. of "Church Assembly" amended as "Synod" by No. 56/2000 s. 8(a).
[1] "Synod" shall mean an assembly of the said Church convened under the provisions of the Act of the Legislature of Victoria passed in the eighteenth year of Her Majesty and numbered XLV or of any Act amending the same;
S. 1 def. of "trusts corporation" inserted by No. 56/2000 s. 5(a).
"trusts corporation" , in relation to a diocese, means the corporate body of trustees constituted within the diocese under this Act.
S. 2 amended by No. 56/2000 s. 8(a).