Victorian Current Acts

STATE AID TO RELIGION ABOLITION ACT 1871

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   1.      Repeal of section 53 of the Constitution Act  
   2.      Definitions  
   3.      Denominations may dispose of trust lands granted by the Crown and apply proceeds to denominational purposes  
   4.      Application for power to dispose of such lands to be made by head or authorised representative of denomination  
   5.      Notice of application to be given by advertisement and by notice to non-consenting trustees  
   6.      Objections to application may be lodged  
   7.      Application to be allowed if no objection lodged  
   8.      Publication of allowance of application to be conclusive evidence that Act has been complied with and trustees named are entitled upon trusts allowed  
   9.      Certificate of title to issue to new trustees as proprietors under "Transfer of Land Statute" and Gazette to be deposited as document declaring trusts  
   10.     Governor may frame regulations  
   11.     No reservation to be made of Crown lands for places of public worship or dwelling-houses for ministers of any religious denomination after 1st day of July 1870  
   12.     Promise or reservation of land not to be affected until application allowed  
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