WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, intituled the Church Property Trust Ordinance, Session II, No. 3, it was enacted that certain person, therein respectively named and all such other persons as should be thereafter elected or appointed Trustees and their successors should be and they were thereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the “Church Property Trustees”, and by that name they should have perpetual succession and a common seal and be forever capable in law, to purchase, receive, possess and enjoy to them and their successors any goods and chattels whatsoever and wheresoever, and any messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments in the Province of Canterbury; and also to lease, let, sell, alienate, mortgage, charge, ore otherwise dispose of such property as well real as personal as they should think proper; and also to act in the concerns of the said body politic and corporate as effectually as any person or persons might or could do in his or their respective concerns, for the purpose and object of establishing and maintaining ecclesiastical and educational institutions within the Province of Canterbury, in connection with the Church in communion with the Church of England and Ireland as by law established:

AND WHEREAS the said Trustees are seised to them and their successors of (amongst other hereditaments) certain messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments in the said Province of Canterbury, being special reserves vested in them for the ecclesiastical and educational institutions within the said Province, in connection with the said Church:

AND WHEREAS the said Trustees are desirous of obtaining express powers enabling them to sell or otherwise dispose of the parcels of land specified in the Schedule A to this Ordinance; and also to lease the parcel of land specified in the Schedule B to this Ordinance; such parcels of land respectively being part of the special reserves so held by them as aforesaid; and it is expedient that such powers should be vested in them, and that the said Ordinance should be amended accordingly.