Victorian Current Acts

PRESBYTERIAN TRUSTS ACT 1890 - SECT 2

In this Act, unless inconsistent with the subject-matter or context, the following words shall have the meanings hereinafter respectively assigned to them:

S. 2 def. of "Church" substituted by No. 9344 s. 3(1).

^[1] "Church" means the Presbyterian Church of Victoria continuing to function under the name or style of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria in accordance with clause 18 of Part III of the Schedule to the Presbyterian Church of Australia Act 1971 ;

S. 2 def. of "Common Fund" inserted by No. 7310 s. 2(a).

"Common Fund" means the Common Fund authorized to be established and kept in the books of the Trusts Corporation pursuant to sub-section (1) of section fourteen A;

"General Assembly" shall mean the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, convened in accordance with the rules practice and usages of the said church;

"General Assembly's Trustees" shall mean the persons who previously to the creation of the corporate body of trustees hereinafter mentioned have been appointed by the General Assembly as trustees for the property of the church;

"Moderator" shall mean the Moderator for the time being of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria;

"property" shall mean land promised or reserved by the Crown for any of the purposes of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria or of any of the bodies mentioned in the said Act No. LXXXII, as amended by the Act No. CCCXXI, and all property real and 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 congregation thereof 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. 2 def. of "Trusts Corporation" inserted by No. 7310 s. 2(b).

"Trusts Corporation" means the corporate body of trustees constituted under this Act under the name of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria Trusts Corporation.