WHEREAS by the Church Property Trust (Canterbury) Act 1879 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) it was enacted that certain payments to the Bishop of Christchurch, the Dean of Christchurch, and Canons of the Christchurch Cathedral were to be made without deduction therefrom and that certain taxes thereon were to be paid out of the income of the respective funds from which such payments were directed to be made: And whereas the Synod of the Diocese of Christchurch, by resolution, has approved the introduction of a Bill so to amend the principal Act as to provide that such payments shall cease to be paid without deduction therefrom to the intent that the payment of taxes will in future be the responsibility of the recipients of such payments: And whereas it is desired that such amendment shall operate as from the first day of November, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, being the day upon which the Fourth Bishop of Christchurch entered upon his episcopal jurisdiction and therefore a convenient day upon which such amendment shall become operative: And whereas it is expedient that all costs, charges, and expenses of and incidental to the preparing, obtaining, and passing of this Act should be paid out of the income of the Bishopric Estate and out of the income of the Dean and Chapter Estate in equal shares: