Property held for congregational purposes
7 Property held for congregational purposes
All lands, tenements, and hereditaments upon which any church, school, manse, or other building is now or shall hereafter be erected and which lands, tenements and hereditaments belong to and are held by the Commissioners upon trust for any particular congregation, and any lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and personal property purchased, devised, bequeathed, or given for the erection, endowment or benefit of any church, school, or manse of any particular congregation, shall, subject to the provisions of section 20, be held by the Commissioners in trust for that congregation; and if such congregation shall cease to exist, then subject as aforesaid in trust for the maintenance or advancement or other purposes of the said Church as may be determined by the General Assembly by any resolution to be passed as aforesaid.
[Section 7 amended: No. 19 of 1964 s. 3.]
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