Unitarian Church Act 1927

Unitarian Trust property shall mean (a) the lands described in Schedule A hereto subject to any encumbrances endorsed thereon, and (b) all other real property and all personal property which is now vested in any person or persons subject to any trust that such property should be set apart, maintained, or used for a site for the erection of a chapel, parsonage, school or hall for the use of the people called Unitarians or upon trust that such property should be used for Divine purposes or any other purpose or purposes by the people called Unitarians, and (c) all property, real or personal, which may hereafter be purchased, leased, hired, given, devised, bequeathed or otherwise acquired by or to a Trustee or Trustees for Unitarian Church or School purposes, and (d) all property, real or personal, given, devised, bequeathed, or donated to the people called Unitarians, or to any person or persons upon trust for or for the use or benefit of the people called Unitarians or for Unitarian church or school purposes, but shall not include bequests, legacies, gifts, donations, or other voluntary dispositions, whether testamentary or otherwise, of personal property (including moneys) up to a total value for each such bequest, legacy, gift, donation or other voluntary disposition, of $200 or such other sum as is determined from time to time by a resolution of the congregation duly passed by a general meeting of the congregation and approved by the Minister of the Crown for the time being administering the Charitable Collections Act 1934, and shall not include subscriptions or offertories by members of the congregation.

Unitarian Church or Church shall mean the people called or known as Unitarians in the State of New South Wales.

Congregation shall mean the congregation for the time being of the people called Unitarians in the State of New South Wales including such persons as shall for the time being be members of the Unitarian Church in the State of New South Wales.

Person shall include the Crown, a company and a corporation sole, and shall include persons.

Trustees or Trustee shall mean the Trustees or Trustee as the case may be for the time being of Unitarian Trust property, and shall include a Trustee Company and the Public Trustee.

Trustee company shall mean any company within the meaning of any law for the time being in force, and regulating the formation of companies in the State of New South Wales and authorised by its Memorandum of Association to act as a Trustee and carrying on in the said State the business of acting as a Trustee.

Committee shall mean the body of members of the congregation who shall be declared under or by virtue of this Act to be the committee of the congregation, or who shall from time to time have been elected by the congregation as the committee of the congregation.

The rules shall mean all rules or regulations which shall be declared or deemed by or by virtue of this Act to be the rules of the congregation, and also all rules or regulations from time to time passed by the congregation in accordance with the provisions of this Act.