• Preamble

  (1) The Methodist Church of New Zealand holds real and personal property on trust for—

  • (a) objects or purposes directly or indirectly associated with or relating to the Methodist Church; or

  • (b) furthering social services, hospital or residential care, or educational needs directly or indirectly associated with the Methodist Church:

  (2) The Methodist Church of New Zealand also holds trust funds for—

  • (a) the purposes of Methodist orphanages or Methodist children’s homes in New Zealand; and

  • (b) the care, welfare, or benefit of persons being cared for, or formerly cared for, in those orphanages or children’s homes:

  (3) The Methodist Church of New Zealand wishes—

  • (a) to have an alternative process to that under the Charitable Trusts Act 1957 to vary the trusts referred to in recital (1); and

  • (b) to have the objects or purposes of the trusts referred to in recital (2) widened to take account of changes in policy and law relating to the care of children and young persons:

  (4) The objects of this Act cannot be achieved without legislation:

The Parliament of New Zealand therefore enacts as follows: