Roman Catholic Trusts Act 1907

After the registration of any resolution passed under the provisions of section three hereof the Registrar-General shall notify the same in the Government Gazette and thereupon the trustees named in such notice and their successors to be appointed as hereinafter provided shall be a body corporate by the name stated in such notice and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued in their corporate name and may acquire take hold manage and deal with any property in trust for the Church within the diocese in which such resolution shall have been passed or for any person holding for the time being any office therein and may receive any moneys which have been or shall be given contributed or bequeathed by any person to be applied to any of the purposes of the Church and may take over any securities for money held by any person on behalf of the Church and may take in the name of such corporate body any securities for money belonging to the Church which shall be lent or advanced on account thereof and shall deal with all such property and securities so as to give effect to the trusts to which they shall be specially subject or when not subject to any express trust in such manner as a council of such diocese may from time to time by resolution direct but so as not to interfere with the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in the enforcement of trusts.