• Preamble

  WHEREAS on the seventh day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, St Saviour's Guild was incorporated under the Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trust Boards Incorporation Act 1884: And whereas on the fourteenth day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, St Anne's Guild Society was incorporated under the Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trusts Act 1908: And whereas on the ninth day of July, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, the Anglican Society of the Friends of the Aged Trust Board was incorporated under the Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trusts Act 1908: And whereas the above-mentioned organizations were incorporated to perform in the Diocese of Christchurch in the Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England, various types of social work as set out in their respective constitutions or rules: And whereas the Synod of the said Diocese in nineteen hundred and fifty appointed a commission to inquire into the advisability of co-ordinating and extending the social work of the Diocese: And whereas the commission duly reported to the said Synod in nineteen hundred and fifty-one and recommended, inter alia, that “the amalgamation of all existing organizations doing social work into a new organization be the urgent objective of the Diocese”: And whereas the said Synod in nineteen hundred and fifty-one approved the said recommendation and instructed the Standing Committee to submit to Parliament a private Bill to carry out the following:— (a) The dissolution of not less than two of the following organizations— St Saviour's Guild Society or Trust Board, St Anne's Guild Society, and the Anglican Society of the Friends of the Aged Trust Board: (b) The establishment of a society to be known as the Anglican Society of Social Work or such other name as the Standing Committee should approve: (c) The transfer of all assets belonging to the organizations dissolved by the Bill to the society so to be established: And whereas the said Synod recommended the insertion in the Bill of certain provisions concerning trusts and the initial working of the Society established by the Bill, which recommendations are incorporated in this Act: And whereas the said Standing Committee has approved the name the Social Service Council of the Diocese of Christchurch: And whereas the said Synod resolved that no such Bill be submitted to Parliament until two or more of the above-mentioned organizations had given their unconditional assent to dissolution and the Standing Committee had approved the draft: And whereas all of the above-mentioned organizations have given their unconditional assent to dissolution by resolutions passed at meetings duly called in accordance with their respective constitutions or rules, and the Standing Committee has approved the draft of this Act.

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