New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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| Private Act | 1948 No 4 |
| Date of assent | 26 November 1948 |
An Act to constitute and incorporate the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle and the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle Trust Board and to provide a Constitution, and Rules for each of such Bodies respectively and to declare the Trusts upon which Property shall hereafter be held by or on behalf of the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle and to provide for all Incidental Matters involved.
WHEREAS in or about the year eighteen hundred and fifty-five a number of persons of the religious denomination known as Baptists formed themselves into a Church, and subsequent thereto acquired a certain piece of land in Wellesley Street, Auckland, and erected thereon a chapel in which public worship was held in accordance with the usages and beliefs of the Baptist denomination: And whereas on the seventh day of August, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, one Frederick Battley, in whom the said piece of land was then vested, conveyed it to seven named persons upon certain trusts then declared: And whereas, in consequence of the said chapel having become inadequate in course of time to the needs of its congregation, the trustees then in office sold the said piece of land and purchased a certain piece of land more particularly described in Schedule 2 hereto upon which there was later erected the chapel known as the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle and also a certain adjoining piece of land more particularly described in Schedule 4 hereto upon which was erected a certain commercial building known as the Tabernacle Buildings: And whereas in or about the year nineteen hundred and thirty-five the trustees then in office, having filed a memorial in the office of the Supreme Court at Auckland under the provisions of Part 2 of the Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trusts Act 1908, became incorporated under such Act as the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle Trust Board: And whereas the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle in the year nineteen hundred and forty-three resolved to adopt a constitution and rules: superseding the constitution and rules previously in force: And whereas doubts have arisen as to the trusts upon which the said pieces of land are held and as to certain matters relating to Church membership and administration: And whereas it is desirable that such doubts be resolved and that the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle and the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle Trust Board be incorporated by Act of Parliament:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
