Presbyterian Church Act 1908

The Commissioners shall keep a Register of all lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and personal property, held or registered now or hereafter in their name, and shall enter in such Register particulars to identify such lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and personal property, and shall, in a column to be set apart for such purpose, set forth whether such lands, tenements, hereditaments, and personal property are held generally or for any specific purpose for the benefit of the said Church, or generally or for any specific purpose in trust or otherwise for any congregation, mission, or institution, belonging to or in connection with the said Church, or under the control thereof, and such lands, tenements, hereditaments, and personal property shall be deemed to be and shall be held by the Commissioners accordingly; provided always that where any lands, tenements, hereditaments, or personal property are or is held generally for the benefit of the said Church the same may be altered to a special purpose by a resolution to be passed by a majority of the members of the General Assembly present at any meeting thereof, or whether held generally or for any special purpose for the said Church the same may be altered by a resolution as aforesaid to any trust for any congregation, mission, or institution thereof; provided further that where any trusts are set forth in the said Register in respect of any lands, tenements, hereditaments, or personal property the same may be altered or varied by a resolution to be passed as aforesaid, but in the case of any lands, tenements, hereditaments, or personal property held subject to any trust for any congregation (other than a congregation ceasing to exist) such trusts shall not be altered, except by petition in writing signed by a majority of the members and adherents of the congregation entitled to the full benefit of the said trust, and with the approval of the Commissioners. All lands held or to be held as aforesaid shall be subject to the provisions of section 20.

[Section 6 amended: No. 50 of 1919 s. 2.]