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Primitive Methodist Temporal Affairs Act 1879

Private Act	1879 No 2
Date of assent	19 December 1879

Contents

Preamble

2 Election of trustees

3 Time and place of meeting to be notified

4 Nominations to be submitted to station's quarterly meeting

5 Superintendent minister entitled to attend meetings and vote

6 In his absence his colleagues may do so

7 Proceedings at meetings

8 Trust property to vest in trustees and their successors

9 Appointment of new trustee to be evidenced by deed

10 Trust properties to be conveyed to trustees appointed under this Act

11 Disqualification of trustee

12 New trustees to be elected

13 If no election, district committee may nominate new trustees

14 Duties of trustees

15 Certain preachers to have use of church or chapel

16 Alteration, etc, of churches and other buildings

17 Power to mortgage

18 Leases may be made

19 Application of rents and other income

20 Trustees to collect pew rents, etc

21 Annual meeting of trustees

22 Power to sell

23 Trust properties to be subject to the provisions of this Act

Schedule
Memorandum of the choice and appointment of new trustees of the following property, viz:

An Act to regulate the Temporal Affairs of the Religious Society denominated Primitive Methodists.

Preamble
WHEREAS in or about the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-four a society of the Primitive Methodist Connexion was duly established at New Plymouth, in the Colony of New Zealand, by the late Reverend Robert Ward, under and by virtue of the powers and privileges delegated to him in that behalf by the Conference of the said Connexion duly held at Lynn Regis, in the County of Norfolk, in England, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-four: And whereas it is expedient to make provision for creating a succession of properly-qualified trustees according, as nearly as may be to the usages and regulations of the said Connexion as declared and set forth in the deed poll and model deed of the said Connexion, and for defining as nearly as may be the manner in which the trusts affecting any property of the said Connexion may be fulfilled, and generally for the conduct of the temporal affairs of the said Connexion and the management of any property thereof:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—