Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current ActsAfter the coming into operation of this Act if and when any number of persons not less than sixteen and including at least four members of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts, United States America accepting and holding the said principles faith and doctrines and adhering to the said tenets and acknowledging and adopting the principles of church organization, discipline, teaching, worship, service, procedure and practice laid down in the said Manual shall form themselves into a body or association to be known as a Church of Christ, Scientist such body or association may subject to the conditions stated in the next following section become a corporate body with the same powers authorities and privileges and subject to the same duties and liabilities mutatis mutandis as those provided in this Act in respect of the said First Church.