Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current ActsPreamble
WHEREAS by an Act of the Governor and Legislative Council of the Colony of New South Wales passed in the eighth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth intituled "An Act to regulate the temporal affairs of Presbyterian Churches and Chapels connected with the Church of Scotland in the Colony of New South Wales" and of another Act of the said Governor and Legislative Council passed in the fourth year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria intituled "An Act to amend an Act intituled 'An Act to regulate the temporal affairs of the Presbyterian Churches and Chapels connected with the Church of Scotland in the Colony of New South Wales" certain powers privileges and advantages were conferred on the Synod of Australia in connexion with the Established Church of Scotland and the Ministers of the Congregations subject to the spiritual jurisdiction thereof:
AND WHEREAS the Ministers and Congregations subject to the spiritual authority of the Synod of Australia situated within that part of the territory of New South Wales known as the District of Port Phillip and which has since been erected into the separate Colony of Victoria were constituted and have since constituted a subordinate Presbytery of the said Synod bearing the designation of the Presbytery of Melbourne:
AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the Presbyterian Church in the Colony of Victoria should be withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the said Synod of Australia and be formed into a distinct Synod separate from and unconnected with any other Church or Ecclesiastical body whatsoever possessing full and independent powers of self-government and bearing the name of "The Synod of Victoria":
AND WHEREAS it is also expedient that the said recited Acts be so amended that they may apply to the said Synod of Victoria having the above powers.
BE IT ENACTED THEREFORE by His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor of the said Colony of Victoria by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows: